Dennis Newbold <dennisn@pe.net> writes:
> Part of my problem is that the web hosting outfit I signed up with
> advertised having both Linux and FreeBSD servers available. I requested a
> Linux server, since that's what I'm most comfortable with. They gave me a
> FreeBSD server. When I objected (and after they had taken my money) they
> said they had no more Linux servers available, but that FreeBSD was
> "functionally equivalent". Which, in large part, may be true, but it
> means that I cannot install from a subversion rpm file, since rpm's don't
> work on FreeBSD.
Yick. Sorry you're doing business with them :-(.
> #$!!
> I ran it because I first read the "INSTALL" file to see if there were any
> special instructions apart from the standard "./configure ; make ; su ;
> make install" steps. In that document, section II.B "Building the Latest
> Source Under Unix", at about the 4th paragraph it says "Start the process
> by running autogen.sh", so I did.
If you read that section carefully, instead of skimming, you'll see
it's talking about a *checkout* of the latest sources from the
repository:
These instructions assume you have already installed Subversion
and checked out a working copy of Subversion's own code --
either the latest /trunk code, or some branch or tag.
You can discard the directory created by the tarball; you're
about to build the latest, greatest Subversion client. This is
the procedure Subversion developers use.
But you are building from a tarball, a procedure which is documented
earlier in INSTALL:
A. Building from a Tarball or RPM
------------------------------
1. Building from a Tarball
Download the most recent distribution tarball from:
http://subversion.tigris.org/servlets/ProjectDocumentList
Unpack it, and use the standard GNU procedure to compile:
$ ./configure
$ make
# make install
Thanks for the new log attachments. Since we don't know what the
result would be of following the standard install procedure, please
try that first. If it still doesn't work, post to
users@subversion.tigris.org, attaching the logs, and we'll figure out
what went wrong.
(Or you can show up in irc.freenode.net, channel #svn. Sometimes that
can get you faster help. But don't paste in huge outputs there,
instead use www.pastebin.org, and then refer people in #svn to the
appropriate pastebin URL. I know about this because I spammed channel
#mysql with some output once, and they told me to use the beautiful
beast that is pastebin.org :-) ).
Good luck,
-Karl
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Received on Wed Jun 23 20:36:45 2004