Re: An (unfinished) guide to the ac-archive

[Peter Simons]

Guido Draheim writes:

 > Hopefully the sync'ing gets obsolete in the very near future
 > however.

Assuming that we both work on the _same_ macro repository -- what is
how it should be, and I guess we both want it that way --, the
synchronization of the macros itself should be trivial. (You could
also check-out the macro repository from savannah directly as part of
your build process. Or, for that matter, I could check-out the macro
repository directly from SourceForge as part of my build process.)

I'd rather see you spend your time helping with this archive than
spending time on yours, obviously. ;-) I will give my best to
accommodate for your requirements and ideas to make sure you are
_happy_ with this archive. In any case, a single point of submission
and a single macro repository should be the least that we aim for.


 > [tool chain]

The "genarchive" tool, how I called the new software, is somewhat
experimental at the moment, and building it on machine other than mine
is a bit of an effort. Therefore I would prefer to not make it public
yet.

The give you an idea what is involved in building the whole archive at
the moment, I'll cut and past the session:

 | address@hidden:~/projects/autoconf-archive$ make
 | Checking out "macros" ............................ done
 | Checking out "webcvs" ............................ done
 | Validating XML macro files ....................... done
 | Generating macros in "webcvs" .................... done
 | Constructing index.html in "webcvs/htmldoc" ...... done
 | Generating "webcvs/autoconf-archive.tar.gz" ...... done
 | Updating "webcvs/dtd" ............................ done
 | Validating SGML files in "webcvs" ................ done
 | Pretty-printing generated files in "webcvs" ...... done
 | Verifying "webcvs/autoconf-archive.tar.gz" ....... done

The you go to "webcvs", execute "cvs commit", and everything is
online.

I am quite proud of it. :-)

For the moment, I will provide you guys with a mechanism to trigger
the re-build, but eventually, you should be able to download the
infrastructure and say "make" to build everything.

Peter