Re: Nightly build failure for user manual since 12th of October

[Ben Pfaff]

On Thu, Oct 15, 2020 at 10:38 AM John Darrington
<john@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.