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Re: Wget bootstrapping problem
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Bruno Haible |
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Re: Wget bootstrapping problem |
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Thu, 07 May 2020 23:34:12 +0200 |
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Darshit Shah wrote:
> What Bruno suggests is that Wget sets SKIP_PO=1 in the bootstrap script
> and then updates the translations during build time.
Yes, that is my second suggestion.
> This is a bad idea. ...
> Not to mention, network access during the build process is often frowned
> upon.
Indeed, it's best to have all git checkouts and all network accesses done,
before the build starts. I withdraw the second suggestion.
> For the same release, we would end up with users that have different
> translations depending on when they compiled Wget.
That would be only for people who build from git, not from a tarball
(if it's implemented that way).
I agree that building from a tarball should produce reproducible results.
Bruno