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

["Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>]

Salut Julien,

Julien Lepiller <julien@lepiller.eu> skribis:

> Le 25 avril 2019 10:50:16 GMT+02:00, "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org> 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’.