Re: [Denemo-devel] Git is up to date with cvs

[Jean-René Reinhard]

On Fri, May 09, 2008 at 01:58:36PM -0500, Jeremiah Benham wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-05-09 at 17:58 +0100, Richard Shann wrote:
> > I still can't build this stuff: I do
> > 
> > cvs -d:pserver:address@hidden:/denemo.git co -d denemo
> > master
> > 
> > and then ./autogen.sh
> > 
> > and get
> > 
> > configure.in:10: required file `./config.rpath' not found

Does this mean git is used with a frontend emulating cvs on top of it? Is the
git repository the main one? I yes who has write access to it? Just looking for
the right people to submit patches...

> 
> Do you have gettext installed? I have this file
> in /usr/share/gettext/config.rpath. Line 10 of configure.in says:
> AM_GNU_GETTEXT([external]). I can add it if it is needed. I want to
> thank you for pointing this out. It pointed me in the direction of the
> gettext documentation.  I am reading it trying to get some insight into
> making translations of denemo. I totally don't know how to do that at
> all. I want to test translations and be able to work on a spanish
> translation. Is the gettext manual what I should be reading? 
> 

The wikipedia gettext page is great as a tutorial (I think)

> > configure.in:4: installing `./missing'
> > configure.in:10: installing `./mkinstalldirs'
> > configure.in:4: installing `./install-sh'
> > plugins/analysis/Makefile.am: installing `./depcomp'
> > Makefile.am: installing `./INSTALL'
> 
> I believe that is all normal.
> 
> > and no configure file results. There is a config.rpath in CVS but not in
> > git. 
> > BTW Do you know why it is that we don't ship a configure script so that
> > the 
> > ./configure, make and make install just works?
> 
> I suppose we could. The configure script would need to be update each
> time their is new files, directories, or compile time options change. 
> 
> Jeremiah
> 
> > Richard
> > 
> > 
> > On Thu, 2008-05-08 at 09:26 -0500, Jeremiah Benham wrote:
> > > I forgot to add some links. Here is a cheat sheet guide to using git:
> > > 
> > > http://savannah.gnu.org/maintenance/UsingGit
> > > 
> > > Here is a nice html style ebook documentation:
> > > http://linux.yyz.us/git-howto.html
> > > 
> > > I left this simple command out. I guess the update equivalent of doing
> > > ->cvs update -Pd is simply doing
> > > 
> > > git pull
> > > 
> > > Jeremiah
> > > 
> > > On Thu, 2008-05-08 at 09:12 -0500, Jeremiah Benham wrote:
> > > > The git repository is not up to date (AFAIK) with cvs. Feel free to play
> > > > around with it. I learned how to do a few things and after using it a
> > > > little bit it really resonates with me.  To check out:
> > > > 
> > > > git clone ssh://address@hidden/srv/git/denemo.git
> > > > 
> > > > replace $USERNAME with your username.
> > > > 
> > > > git commit -a -m "update with cvs Thursday, May 08 2008"
> > > > 
> > > > The checks every file for change and select the changed files for
> > > > committing.  The -m is the message. -a means everything. 
> > > > 
> > > > The after the files are marked for commitment then you do this:
> > > > 
> > > > git push
> > > > 
> > > > Jeremiah
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > 
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