On 5/2/07, Stuart Levy <slevy@ncsa.uiuc.edu> wrote:
> Hello subversion developers,
>
> I recently installed subversion-1.4.3 in the routine way suggested
> in its installation documentation -- build the dependent libraries,
> configure with them, make, make install.
>
> I expected that it would only change things beneath the prefix directory.
>
> However, even though I didn't care about or specify any
> apache-specific options, they were set by default. So
> "make install" installed a bunch of things under $prefix as expected,
> but *also* invoked apxs to add two svn-related Apache modules
> to the running system's web server configuration, which I didn't
> expect.
>
> This showed up the next time the server was restarted, some
> while later, when ... the server mysteriously wouldn't run because
> the newly added modules were incompatible with it. This was
> harder to diagnose than it might have been, since the
> incompatibility simply made the server crash, rather than
> giving a reportable error.
>
> I'm not asking about the incompatibility -- the svn apache modules
> aren't needed in our environment.
>
> But, please, please, I'd like to suggest that neither "--with-apache"
> nor "--with-apxs" be enabled by default. This should ensure that ...
>
> - the default "install" only changes things under $prefix,
> as is true for most packages -- following the principle
> of least surprise
>
> - unprivileged users can install local copies of subversion
> without having to understand dependencies outside of $prefix.
>
> - if a (privileged) user doesn't explicitly ask for the
> apache configuration to be altered,
> it will remain unchanged (and un-potentially-broken)
What was the configure command you ran? Just configure with no
options? I tend to run it with just --with-ssl --enable-javahl
--prefix=/usr/local/svn-trunk and I have never had it do this. Maybe
it has something to do with what it can find though.
--
Thanks
Mark Phippard
http://markphip.blogspot.com/
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Received on Sat May 5 18:01:37 2007