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

[Ben Pfaff]

I fixed the build now.

The examples don't look very good in the PDF version of the manual.
They overflow the right margin and they get cut off at the bottom of
the page.

On Thu, Oct 15, 2020 at 10:55 AM Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu> wrote:
>
> 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.