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Re: 1.2.0-rc1 tarballs up for testing/signing

From: Max Bowsher <maxb_at_ukf.net>
Date: 2005-04-07 00:28:20 CEST

John Lenz wrote:
> On 04/04/05 19:03:55, Ben Reser wrote:
>> http://fornix.brain.org/subversion/
>>
>> -rw-rw-r-- 1 svnrm svnrm 6973827 Apr 4 19:46
>> subversion-1.2.0-rc1.tar.bz2
>> -rw-rw-r-- 1 svnrm svnrm 8520113 Apr 4 19:46
>> subversion-1.2.0-rc1.tar.gz -rw-rw-r-- 1 svnrm svnrm 11364041 Apr 4
>> 19:50 subversion-1.2.0-rc1.zip
>>
>> md5sums:
>> c96be2d7591b7ee260ac372fe1248dff subversion-1.2.0-rc1.tar.gz
>> b99e49eea110ebfca338b62db5f5a2be subversion-1.2.0-rc1.tar.bz2
>> d28d5f6fd84b9f4651e879af0b9500c6 subversion-1.2.0-rc1.zip
>>
>> sha1sums:
>> 75138673c63b8e5015ff2f9ffdc6f27e49f4d65d subversion-1.2.0-rc1.tar.gz
>> a64ae487bbb3e752e074c59e1f9665fc5e53bd7b subversion-1.2.0-rc1.tar.bz2
>> e65c81a507a95ad5ad7645c776ab48b841602011 subversion-1.2.0-rc1.zip
>>
>> Please test and send me your signatures. Thank you.
>>
>
> I noticed that SWIG is still required to build the tarball. In my
> opinion, removing the requirement that SWIG be installed to build the
> subversion tarball should be something that makes it into 1.2. No code
> changes need to take place to support this, it is only Makefile changes
> and build script changes so it shouldn't be a problem of testing. I
> attempted to hack the build system to support this, but the way
> build-outputs.mk is built with those python scripts is so complicated I
> couldn't figure out how to do it.
> In case the previous mail got lost (there were no replies), something like
> the following needs to be added to the makefile:
>
> SWIGLIBDIR=`$(SWIG) -swiglib`
>
> subversion/bindings/swig/python/libsvn_swig_py/swigpyrun.h:
> $(SWIG) -python -external-runtime path/swigpyrun.h || \
> ( cat $(SWIGLIBDIR)/swigrun.swg > path/swigpyrun.h && \
> cat $(SWIGLIBDIR)/python/pyrun.swg >> path/swigpyrun.h && \
> cat $(SWIGLIBDIR)/runtime.swg >> path/swigpyrun.h; )
>
> and then have the swigutil_py.c file include swigpyrun.h instead of
> including the swigrun.swg, pyrun.swg, and runtime.swg directly.
>
> The main problem is dist.sh does not actually run configure or make, so I
> don't know where to add this into the build system. You would like it to
> be added so the rule gets added to build-outputs.mk so that during normal
> development if an .i file changes you have the rules to rebuild the SWIG
> files. But you also need to build these rules from dist.sh, so having a
> separate Makefile with the SWIG rules would work better. What I'm
> thinking here is gen_make.py dumps all the SWIG rules (that is, only the
> rules to build .c files from .i files) into a build-swig-outputs.mk which
> build-outputs.mk includes. Then dist.sh could run
> make -f build-swig-outputs.mk SWIG=/path/to/swig
> The only variable build-swig-outputs.mk should have is the SWIG variable,
> and when building normally the toplevel Makefile.in would set it, and
> otherwise dist.sh would look it up and set it.

As you have observed, this requires an extremely nontrivial bit of
buildsystem work.

1.2 is feature frozen, so it will not be happening in 1.2.

Max.

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