Re: Issues with INSTALL

On 8/14/06, David Glasser <glasser@mit.edu> wrote:
> A few things I noticed skimming through INSTALL:
>
> (a) It hasn't been updated since the deps tarball was split out,
> leading to things like "If you are bootstrapping from a tarball,
> zipfile or an RPM then you will already have everything you require to
> get a Subversion client.".

That should certainly be updated.

> (b) It (along with all user-level documentation except for a single
> line in CHANGES) makes no reference to ra_serf.

Well, since serf itself doesn't actually have any releases, it's kind
of hard for a user to install it, so we don't need docs on it yet ;-)

> (c) There's apparently been a "TBD: Describe BDB 4.0.x problem" in
> section IV.B (Mac OS X) since r5965 in May 2003.
>
> I don't know enough about the build system, serf, or this mysterious
> BDB problem to offer patches.

I believe there was some sort of OS X specific bug in BDB 4.0, but
it's been a long time, and I might be missremembering...

-garrett

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Received on Tue Aug 15 15:51:50 2006