Re: Subversion on Red Hat Null

On Fri, Sep 13, 2002 at 03:31:43PM +0100, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 04:30:28PM -0700, Greg Stein wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 12:46:54PM +0100, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote:
> > > What are the dependencies on Apache-2.0.41, btw? Having Subversion be
> >
> > Between 2.0.40 and 2.0.41, there were some changes to the error constants in
> > APR. If Subversion is built against the installed Apache's APR(UTIL) rather
> > than an in-tree recent copy, then it should actually work fine.
>
> Eek. If APR is changing fundamental constants in the ABI between
> releases, that rather scunners it as a useful portable library for
> multiple applications (unless they all link statically.)
>
> But if there's a workaround when building svn against an installed set
> of libs, that certainly removes some of the pain.

True... but APR(UTIL) are still undergoing change and finalization and
wrap-up. Once a 1.0 is released, then their ABI will be frozen.

See http://apr.apache.org/versioning.html

The APR libraries are also using Havoc's recommendations for parallel
installations (e.g. libapr-1.so and per-major-version include dirs).

Cheers,
-g

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