Re: Unneeded APR dependency in ./configure (was Re: TRANSLATING: HACKING for translators?)

> > Presumably because you are a developer (even when you only develop
> > translations).
>
> No I'm not. I'm a translator, maybe with little technical knowledge. At
> least, this kind of user should be able to contribute...

Ok. Point taken. Let me rephrase myself: until your request people following
trunk for whatever reason were assumed to be knowledgeable of the autoconf
build support system.

Surely you should be able to contribute. What you ask is new to Subversion
is all I am saying. Until now we had releases for non-tech users and trunk
for those wanting bleeding edge. To help you with a quick start I could send
you the .pot for current HEAD off-list.

> I don't see the point requesting APR everytime. Isn't it possible that
> autoconf generate only the targets that are possible to build (so when
> APR isn't there?

Anybody running Subversion has APR, so the only time you won't have APR is
when you don't run it. If you don't run it, then you can't follow trunk.
Which you do, since you're translating HEAD (no releases support it yet).

Anyway, if you run configure once, then a file named 'config.nice' is
created. This file contains the command to run configure with whatever
arguments you used last time. Also, there is no need to run configure
everytime you want the .pot; rather, you run configure once and then you run
'svn up' to pull changes from the repository. Only when configure.in or
autogen.sh get changed you need to run the full sequence. (There are one or
two other cases, but this will get you quite far.) What I try to tell you
is that it might seem complex the first time, it might be only that.

I want to help you understand this so you can contribute. I hope I did just
that and not scare you away.

bye,

Erik.

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