build system problem, anyone know how to fix?

At least, I think this is a build system problem... Maybe someone will
know right away what it is?

To reproduce, do

   autogen.sh
   ./configure
   make check

... and see basic_tests.py fail when it tries to create a repository
for testing.

If you investigate the failure, you'll see it's because the `svn'
client binary does not know how to handle "file:///" URLs. Why?
Because it doesn't have ra_local loaded (as it happens, it doesn't
have ra_dav either, which would be a problem if we tried to connect to
a remote repository).

If you look at subversion/clients/cmdline/svn, it's a libtool shell
script whose `relink_command' includes `--rpath' commands to link in
all the shared library paths. But those two ra_* libs are missing;
there are no `--rpath' options for them.

Why is this thus? Ben and I do not know. We are hoping someone out
there does. :-)

The reason this problem doesn't usually show up is that we normally
run configure like this:

   ./configure --enable-maintainer-mode --disable-shared

When you do it that way, the problem doesn't happen.

-Karl

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Received on Sat Oct 21 14:36:35 2006