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

[Ben Pfaff]

I discovered that I was looking at hardcoded output from tutorial.tex,
not output from the example conversion. Oops.

On Sat, Oct 24, 2020 at 1:37 PM Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu> wrote:
>
> 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.