On Monday 27 February 2006 14:50, Marcus Rueckert wrote:
> On 2006-02-27 14:24:04 +0100, Paul de Vrieze wrote:
> > I've identified an issue with the gentoo package for subversion. The
> > configure script continues hapilly when external neon support was
> > specified but not found (wrong version). I've created a small patch
> > to remedy this.
>
> That is incorrect. An user can run svn without neon happily. he can
> still use file:// or svn:// or svn+ssh://. so enforcing neon is not
> needed. i would suggest applying this patch in your ebuild and pass an
> USE flag for it. so only if the user specifies to use neon your build
> should fail. otherwise it can happily ignore neon.
I've checked, and the patch is indeed incorrect. It fails always when neon
is not found. Even with --without-neon. This patch should be better,
although it duplicates some code.
Paul
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Paul de Vrieze
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