Re: gettext 0.18: ./configure --without-cvs does not work properly

[Santiago Vila]

Bruno Haible wrote:
> You can investigate by looking precisely at what this command does for
> you:
>   $ cd gettext-tools/misc/
>   $ ./convert-archive cvs dir archive.cvs.tar.gz archive.dir.tar.gz

Thanks, that indeed helps:

$ ./convert-archive cvs dir archive.cvs.tar.gz archive.dir.tar.gz
./convert-archive: 201: rlog: not found
tar: *: Cannot stat: No such file or directory
tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors

> Note that this script also needs the 'rlog' program, from the 'rcs'
> package.

I see it clearly now :-)

I wonder why the build process continued happily. Should the Makefiles
not stop on errors like this one?


BTW: When converting to git I get a message saying that my name and email
address have been guessed from my login name and machine name.

Is there a way to disable such thing during the build process? I don't
like the idea of my name and a bogus email (as the machine is not in
DNS) to end up being in the archive.git.tar.gz to be distributed in
the debian package.

[ Sorry if the question is naive. I don't use cvs or git myself ].