Re: Subversion 1.1.0 Release Candidate 2 released. Win32 build problem

On Wed, 2004-08-11 at 01:49, Patrick Mayweg wrote:
> Hi Ben,
> the windows build does not work out of the box because of an absolut
> path to expat in build/win32/build_neon.bat. This should be a relative
> path to included apr.

Here comes an impressive display of ignorance:

Since when are we auto-generating .dsp's and .bat scripts in our release
tarballs? Is this a new thing, something to enhance our CRLF-eol-style
.zip package? Have I been asleep?

Up to now, my simple understanding of the world has always been: to
build on win32, you must follow the instructions in INSTALL. And that
means: 1. fetch lots of packages, arrange them in a special way, 2. run
gen-make.py -t dsp etc, 3. run an 'msdev' commandline, 4. manually
assemble the results.

If I had known about auto-generated .dsp/.bat files, and if they're now
being advertised as the "official" way to build a .zip release, then I
would have insisted on testing the RC2 .zip file yesterday. It becomes
just as important as testing ./configure in the .tar.gz packages. But
living in total ignorance, I assumed the .zip file was nothing more than
a CRLF-converted source tree.

Someone... please de-confuse me.

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Received on Wed Aug 11 17:20:23 2004