Re: apr-util build problems (was: Re: need to do tarball soon)

On Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 01:08:23PM -0600, Karl Fogel wrote:
> Greg Stein <gstein@lyra.org> writes:
> > I went to roll a new tarball tonite, but the result was horked. When I
> > unpacked and tried to configure it, the apr-util portion bombed out. It saw
> > my previous installation of apr and tried to use it. That just blew up.
> >
> > So... I'm going to work more on apr-util itself, and then on SVN's
> > integration of apr-util. (similar to what I just did with APR/SVN).
> >
> > When that's done, we'll want to cut a new tarball. The old tarball (with its
> > older apr and apr-util) isn't going to work against current SVN.
>
> I'd guess this is related to the fact that one also can't build the
> latest tree if one doesn't have APR already installed on the system --
> apr-util bombs out looking for APRVARS.

Oof... yah, apr-util needs to learn how to use the new find_apr.m4 script,
rather than relying on APRVARS. That will fix the above problem.

>...
> And here is what happened the first time I ran `configure' from the
> top of the Subversion tree, with apr/ and apr-util/ subdirs but no
> installed APR on the system. (Tentative diagnosis: seems we need some
> way to tell apr-util to look in srcdir/apr to find APRVARS?)

Normally, we tell apr-util: --with-apr=WHATEVER

If it was smart :-), then it would know to look there for APR.

Cheers,
-g

-- 
Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/
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