Building from source to include running autoconf?

Posted Oct 27, 2020 0:46 UTC (Tue) by rgmoore (✭ supporter ✭, #75)
In reply to: Building from source to include running autoconf? by geert
Parent article: Rejuvenating Autoconf

Online is great. Until you discover the online documentation describes a (much newer or sometimes older) version of the software than what's actually provided by your distro, and installed on your computer.

Or your network is down. Or the problem you're trying to fix is with your networking or your browser. Or you're on some kind of metered connection and would like to avoid connecting to the network for everything. Or any of the other myriad reasons one might wish to avoid going online for everything. Putting everything online is great, but there's really no reason not to put documentation on the same computer as the software it's documenting.