groff doesn't link against ghostscript and others

[dgilman (David Gilman)]

groff just shells out to ghostscript/psutils/netpbm in shell scripts. It's probably doable to patch autoconf files to hard code those paths and move those three packages to depends_run. Likewise, uchardet is statically linked into groff and urw-fonts is used at build time to create font files. Those two are both depends_build dependencies.

If these changes are made would it get around the AGPL/GPL distribution problem and allow MacPorts to ship a binary groff?

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

Dependency type does not affect distributability.