Re: Making ra_serf the default for DAV

On Thu, 19 Oct 2006, John Szakmeister wrote:
...
> Along these lines, I'd like us to be able to build serf without the
> entire apr source tree. I'd like to use my system's apr libraries,
> rather than having to compile my own or rebuilding the system ones
> just so that I have a good source tree.

Serf's buildconf requires APR:

--- snip ---
  if [ ! -d build ]; then
    $apr_src_dir/build/mkdir.sh build
  fi

  echo copying build files
  cp $apr_src_dir/build/config.guess $apr_src_dir/build/config.sub \
     $apr_src_dir/build/install.sh $apr_src_dir/build/apr_common.m4 \
     $apr_src_dir/build/find_apr.m4 $apu_src_dir/build/find_apu.m4 \
     $apr_src_dir/build/get-version.sh build
--- snip ---

If you have a copy of Serf which has already had its buildconf run as
appropriate for your system, you can get away with pointing Serf's
configure at apr-config and apu-config.