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RE: Misleading/incomplete building instructions provided by m4-macro SVN_DOWNLOAD_APRUTIL (file an issue?)

From: Nicolai, Johannes <Johannes.Nicolai_at_student.hpi.uni-potsdam.de>
Date: 2007-10-29 20:36:17 CET

Here is the patch for it:

Index: build/ac-macros/aprutil.m4
===================================================================
--- build/ac-macros/aprutil.m4 (revision 27464)
+++ build/ac-macros/aprutil.m4 (working copy)
@@ -112,7 +112,8 @@
   echo " http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/apr/apr-util/branches/0.9.x \\"
   echo " apr-util"
   echo ""
- echo "Run that right here in the top level of the Subversion tree,"
+ echo "Run that right here in the top level of the Subversion tree."
+ echo "Afterwards, run apr-util/buildconf in the same directory and"
   echo "then run configure again."
   echo ""
   AC_MSG_ERROR([no suitable APRUTIL found])
Index: build/ac-macros/apr.m4
===================================================================
--- build/ac-macros/apr.m4 (revision 27464)
+++ build/ac-macros/apr.m4 (working copy)
@@ -115,6 +115,7 @@
   echo " apr"
   echo ""
   echo "Run that right here in the top level of the Subversion tree."
+ echo "Afterwards, run apr/buildconf in the same directory and"
   echo "then run configure again."
   echo ""
   echo "Whichever of the above you do, you probably need to do"

Regards

Johannes

-----Original Message-----
From: Karl Fogel [mailto:kfogel@red-bean.com]
Sent: Mon 10/29/2007 12:00 AM
To: Nicolai, Johannes
Cc: dev@subversion.tigris.org
Subject: Re: Misleading/incomplete building instructions provided by m4-macro SVN_DOWNLOAD_APRUTIL (file an issue?)
 
"Nicolai, Johannes" <Johannes.Nicolai@student.hpi.uni-potsdam.de> writes:
> If you checkout the source of subversion, generate your configure
> script and run it without having libaprutil installed, configure will
> exit after having executed the m4 macro SVN_DOWNLOAD_APRUTIL in
> ac-macros/apr-util.m4
>
> The text, this m4 macro outputs suggests to directly checkout the
> aprutil source code (command is provided) and run configure again. If
> you run configure again, it will run into an error because there is no
> configure script (yet) for aprutils. You first have to run buildconf
> in the checked-out directory apr-util before (that is not mentioned in
> th m4 macro and might confuse people).

Thank you for the concise description of the problem.

> Question #1: Is this worth a P5 issue?
>
> Question #2: May I provide a patch that changes the m4 macro in a way
> it tells you about the buildconf command or should I modify a m4 macro
> so that it automatically calls buildconf before it tries to execute
> configure?

Yes, please! I think if we have the patch from you, then we don't
need to bother to file an issue about this...

> Question #3: The same problem occurs for libapr as well. Should I file
> another issue for this?

...and same here :-).

Best,
-Karl

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