Re: [PATCH 1/2] bootstrap: Break automake dependency on generated files. (was Re: Let’s translate!)

[Ludovic Courtès]

Salut Julien,

Julien Lepiller <address@hidden> skribis:

> Le 25 avril 2019 10:50:16 GMT+02:00, "Ludovic Courtès" <address@hidden> a 
> écrit :

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>>> You will only be bothered when new translations appear, in which case
>>> you'll have to run ./bootstrap again, but on the other hand, you will
>>> never be bothered by *.texi files being changed all the time.
>>
>>So what would one have to do when preparing a new release?  Presumably
>>nothing because the up-to-date texi files would be checked in?
>>
>>IOW, running ./bootstrap is something what would matter primarily to
>>translators, is that correct?
>
> It would be needed to build the translated manuals, so I think it would be 
> needed to successfuly run make from the git checkout. Translators should not 
> even care about the source. Or maybe running only autoreconf will simply not 
> build the translated manuals, I'm not sure.
>
> But once you run ./bootstrap once, you should not have to run it again until 
> a new language is available for the manual.

I see, sounds good to me.

I think you can go ahead and push!

Thanks for explaining,
Ludo’.