Re: [PATCH] Reworking INSTALL, Take 2

Bruce Atherton wrote:

> At 02:53 AM 2/2/02 +0100, Branko =?UTF-8?B?xIxpYmVq?= wrote:
>
>> Bruce Atherton wrote:
>>
>>> For example, how is getdate.c generated on a Windows platform? Do
>>> you require a Cygwin or Mingw or DJGPP version of yacc/bison in
>>> order to compile?
>>
>>
>> If those were required, they'd be listed HACKING. :-)
>
>
> I know, I need to develop a more trusting nature toward documentation.
> Just call me Mr. Cynic.

Don't worry. Not trusting documentation is a virtue. :-)

>> There's a pre-build getdate.cw that gets copied to getdate.c on Windows.
>
>
> Ok, thanks. I think I'll mention that in case anyone else gets
> confused as easily as I do.
>
>>> For bootstrapping, what about diff and patch. The README included
>>> with the precompiled windows client suggests that they have to be
>>> stored in "C:\Program Files\cygnus\cygwin\bin", yet I have cygwin
>>> installed in a different directory and it seems to work. Do they
>>> just have to be on the PATH? Does the libdb DLL or the svn EXE?
>>
>>
>> That's interesting. The paths to diff and patch are hard-coded in
>> svn_private_config.hw (and can of course be changed for your setup).
>> I wonder if the diff- and patch- spawining code hasn't changed to use
>> PATH ... it hasn't. Weird. Are you sure you actually called diff
>> and/or patch? IIRC they only get used for merging local changes
>> during update, si you might not have hit that code yet.
>
>
> I think so. Are you sure it isn't the change to APR and svn_io_run_cmd
> to take a flag for searching the path? Here is a session in a DOS box
> that does a DIFF without the PATH being set to pick up cygwin, and
> then a DIFF that does:
>
> C:\svn\subversion>..\svn --version
> Subversion Client, version 0.8.0 (revision 1029)
> compiled Jan 23 2002, 19:13:03
>
> Copyright (C) 2000-2002 CollabNet.
> Subversion is open source software, see http://subversion.tigris.org/
>
> The following repository access (RA) modules are available:
>
> * ra_dav : Module for accessing a repository via WebDAV (DeltaV)
> protocol.
> - handles 'http' schema
> * ra_local : Module for accessing a repository on local disk.
> - handles 'file' schema
>
>
> C:\svn\subversion>..\svn diff -r 1100 README
> Index: ./README
> ===================================================================
>
> apr_error: #23657, src_err 0 : <One of the library files needed to run
> this appl
> ication cannot be found. >
> svn_io_run_cmd: error starting
> c:\progra~1\cygnus\cygwin\bin\diff.exe process
>
> C:\svn\subversion>PATH=%PATH%;c:\cygwin\bin
>
> C:\svn\subversion>..\svn diff -r 1100 README
> Index: ./README
> ===================================================================
> --- ./README
> +++ ./.svn/tmp/README.63464.00001.tmp Sun Feb 3 13:10:18 2002
> @@ -1,59 +1,175 @@
> +
> Subversion, a version control system.
> =====================================
>
> -This code is still under development. For an overview, visit
> +$LastChangedDate$
> +
> ... etc
>
> It looks to me like the PATH is now supported.

Now, that is *extremely* strange. The PATH searching option was only
added on Unix. Looks like whoever implemented apr_proc_create on Win32
was sloppy about the semantics --- luckily for you. :-)

>> I couldn't integrate neon into the Windows build until the recent
>> 0.18.5 release, which includes all of my patches for the Neon build
>> system (can use zlib and OpenSSL, yeah!).
>
>
> So does the latest Subversion work against Neon 0.18.5? Should I
> include a note that you can build Neon yourself on Windows if you use
> 0.18.5 or greater? Is there anything else to know to make that work?

I should have added: "I think SVN should upgrade to neon-0.18.5". It
isn't now, and neon isn't integrated into the build. But I think it
should be, now that it can be.

>> Berkeley DB has its own build instructions. I just uploaded the
>> binaries as a convenience, because the Windows build system requires
>> the includes and libs in a specific location. There's no reason why
>> you couldnt build Berkeley DB and put the files in the right places
>> yourself.
>
>
> Great, thanks.
>
>> I'd appreciate any and all patches to the Win32 build docs. I'ts
>> pretty hard to write good user docs if you set up the system
>> yourself; I usually forget to mention one or two crucial steps that I
>> take for granted. :-(
>
>
> I completely understand. Is there anything I should be looking at
> other than HACKING for build instructions on Windows?

I think so. I definitely didn't write any other instructions.

>> And I hope that someday soon we'll be able to add instructions for
>> installing mod_dav_svn into Apache on Win32. Hold your breath ...
>
>
> Excellent news.

-- 
Brane Čibej   <brane_at_xbc.nu>   http://www.xbc.nu/brane/
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