Re: svn commit: r20034 - in trunk/packages/rpm: redhat-7.x redhat-8+ rhel-3 rhel-4

On Sun, 11 Jun 2006, Erik Huelsmann wrote:

>> >> --APR_VER_REGEXES=["0\.9\.[5-9] 0\.9\.1[0-9] 1\."]
>> >> --APU_VER_REGEXES=["0\.9\.[5-9] 0\.9\.1[0-9] 1\."]
>> >> +-APR_VER_REGEXES=["0\.9\.[7-9] 0\.9\.1[0-9] 1\."]
>> >> +-APU_VER_REGEXES=["0\.9\.[7-9] 0\.9\.1[0-9] 1\."]
>> >> +APR_VER_REGEXES=["0\.9\.[4-9] 0\.9\.1[0-9] 1\."]
>> >> +APU_VER_REGEXES=["0\.9\.[4-9] 0\.9\.1[0-9] 1\."]
>> >
>> >
>> > Umm... but the reason for requiring 0.9.7 was a dataloss one!
>> >
>> > I.e., this is NOT a requirement to be trivially overridden without
>> > considerable thought.
>> >
>>
>> I agree, but if you modify APR, you have to recompile apache, php, and a
>> whole slew of other packages to make things match up correctly. I've been
>> down this path before. If you or anyone has any words of wisdom, please
>> let me know how to just compile with a new APR without having to
>> re-compile the "whole world" of interdependencies. Or am I missing
>> something?
>
> It's by policy that 0.9.x versions are backward binary compatible when
> compiled with the same configure and compile flags.
>
> APR releases past 0.9.5 all have been drop-in replacements for me.
> There should be no reason to require recompilation of all
> dependencies.
>

Ah! Great! That's the first time I've heard that bit of news. I'll give
that a try right away.

I knew that was true on Subversion but didn't know that was the case for
APR.

    Thanks,
    - David

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