Re: gettext 0.18: ./configure --without-cvs does not work properly

[Bruno Haible]

Hi Santiago,

> Trying to build gettext using --without-cvs results in an almost empty
> archive.dir.tar.gz file (45 bytes long) which I guess it will not work.

Yes, such a empty archive is unusable. For me, archive.dir.tar.gz is
3297668 bytes large, and archive.git.tar.gz (which I get by configuring
with --without-cvs --with-git) is 584298 bytes large.

> I would understand that cvs would need to be present during the build
> so that archive.cvs.tar.gz in the source may be extracted by cvs into
> their individual files, but to my surprise, installing cvs and trying
> to build again does not improve things at all.

You can investigate by looking precisely at what this command does for
you:
  $ cd gettext-tools/misc/
  $ ./convert-archive cvs dir archive.cvs.tar.gz archive.dir.tar.gz

Note that this script also needs the 'rlog' program, from the 'rcs'
package.

> Also, PACKAGING should probably warn that cvs is needed if that's
> really the case.

I'm adding some info about this to the DEPENDENCIES file:
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=gettext.git;a=commitdiff;h=e840f3f60cb4e34a5e75d980a7f9bb560e667b82

Bruno