Re: New stable snapshot

[Simon Josefsson]

Ben Pfaff <address@hidden> writes:

> Simon Josefsson <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> "Michel Boaventura" <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>>> Could you add this fix to the next snapshot Ben? I'm still have
>>> problems trying to compile a git version of pspp using mingw :(
>>
>> What are these snapshots?
>
> Michel is referring to a snapshot of GNU PSPP, not Gnulib.  I
> have a cron job that pulls the latest PSPP and Gnulib from Git
> every night and copies the output of "make dist" to a
> web-accessible location.

Ah, thanks.

>> Would a daily build of gnulib in *.tar.gz format be useful?  I suppose
>> it could make testing gnulib on various platforms easier (no need to
>> bootstrap with git), so I'll make that happen on
>> http://daily.josefsson.org/ soon.
>
> It is pretty easy to get tar.gz snapshots anyhow.  Just go to
>         http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=gnulib.git
> and click on one of the "snapshot" links.

I was talking about a *.tar.gz archive with all gnulib modules that can
be configured and built with './configure && make check'.  I already
generate one every day to generate the build logs, so making the archive
available should be a simple addition.  It would make it possible to
build the archive on other systems more easily too.

/Suimon