On Thu, Oct 15, 2020 at 10:38 AM John Darrington <j...@darrington.wattle.id.au> wrote: > > 41;344;0cOn Thu, Oct 15, 2020 at 09:18:35AM -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote: > Hmm. It's worse than that, since now it's impossible to build a source > distribution from Git without first building the PSPP binary. > > That much is true. > > And I think that cross-compiling from Git is impossible now? > Since you can't build the manual unless you first build and run the > binary. > > Yes and no. One must first build a native binary, at least for the > terminal version of PSPP, because that is used to generate the > example outputs. Once you've done that, then you can do a cross build. > > However, it's going to get worse :/ because I have plans to auto generate > screenshots for the manual. These will depend upon a nativly built > and installed PSPPIRE. So when that happens, then yes, almost everything > will have to be built, before the manual can be built. > > I think I need to discard the idea of having separate "source" and > "binary" > nightly builds. > > In my opinion, it would still be useful to have a regular build-bot > to check that cross-builds can be performed from the tarball, even if > that tarball can only be generated after building a native binary
OK. I think it's a big benefit for our users to improve the manual, so I'll work to deal with this in the autobuilder.
