Problem Building Subversion 1.0.4 from sources on FreeBSD (fwd)

Dear Developers,

     I originally sent the email below to users@subversion.tigris.org on
6/5/2004. As of today (6/21/2004), no one has responded to me privately,
and it has not appeared in the mailing list archives. Therefore, I am
sending it to your list in the hope that your list admin will be a little
more polite or effective. Also, there is some justification in doing so
because:

  1. I have since discovered that ltconfig is a shell script which is no
     longer used or needed by current versions of libtool. The fact that
     a call to it occurs in your ./configure script indicates that the
     script is broken or out of date and needs to be updated. This, I
     think, would best be done by a developer.

  2. an open source project which cannot be built "out of the box" from
     sources but instead requires special knowledge / insight into how
     everything fits -- well, it doesn't seem to be all that "open".
     I would thus suggest that the build process itself needs to be made
     cleaner and simpler, and this effort (at least in the current state
     of things) is probably best done by a developer.

I apologize if the above seems abrupt or rude. I am just very frustrated
as I would very much like to begin using svn for various personal efforts.
I finally found a FreeBSD-based hosting service that is open to allowing
me to use svn, but it currently is not available on their system, and
when I tried building it myself, I ran into the roadblock described below.

I really like svn. I consider it to be a significant improvement over
cvs, and would like to see everyone at my company using it, but currently
I have nothing to show anyone to demonstrate its superiority. So, in
summary, I don't mean to be rude, but I am rather frustrated at this time.
Thank you.

Dennis Newbold

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---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Sat, 5 Jun 2004 10:56:30 -0700 (PDT)
From: Dennis Newbold <dennisn@pe.net>
To: users@subversion.tigris.org
Subject: Problem Building Subversion 1.0.4 from sources on FreeBSD

Dear Everyone,

     For various reasons, I am attempting to build subversion 1.0.4
from the sources. I'm on a FreeBSD system. Output from config.guess
is: i386-unknown-freebsd4.8

I first ran: sh autogen.sh, and got a few warning messages, but no show-
soppers, AFAIK. Output is in run_autogen.sh.log

Next, I ran ./configure, which terminated early with an error message.
The output is in run_configure.log.

The last error message suggested I try 'ltconfig --help'. I tried this,
but evidently my system does not have ltconfig, which may be the problem,
or an aftereffect. I also tried doing "find -name ltconfig" from the
base of the source tree, which yielded no results. The above log files,
as well as the various config.log files are found in the attached
subv_logs.zip file. I'd appreciate any help anyone can offer. Please
send response directly to dennisn@pe.net as I'm not subscribed to this
mailing list.

Dennis Newbold
dennisn@pe.net

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