Re: can't build tree on FreeBSD.

On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 03:32:45PM -0800, Greg Stein wrote:
...
> It does seem prudent for us to add a version check to ensure that a person
> has the correct version of Neon (APR doesn't publish enough info for us to
> do this). I'll ponder on where/how we can do that.

Another option is import the neon source directory into the SVN
repository itself. neon has a set of autoconf macros which let you build
the source directory stand-alone pretty easily. Advantages of doing it
this way:

1) nobody has to download & unpack neon by hand after checking out SVN
 - they can't get the wrong version by mistake like Ben
 - updating to a newer version of neon is simpler

2) gets rid of a messy recursive configure
 - and the top-level svn configure script gets arguments such as
--with-ssl for configuring neon properly

3) allows building svn against an external neon library
(--with-neon=/blah) (possibly... there may be some problems with the two
copies of expat in there)

4) gets rid of some of the hackery needed to get neon+expat happy
together

I can do this if it is an acceptable change.

Regards,

joe
Received on Sat Oct 21 14:36:19 2006