Re: Win32 Build nigthmare (was: 1.5.0-beta1 tarballs up for signing/testing)

On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 12:39 PM, Mark Phippard <markphip_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 12:26 PM, Paul Burba <ptburba_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 12:00 PM, Mark Phippard <markphip_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Building on Win32 seems worse than ever.
> > >
> > > I defy someone to take just the source we provide in deps and do a
> > > proper build. If they succeed, then please document it.
> > >
> > > My problems center around APR.
> > >
> > > 1) We used to build APR if it was in the subversion tree and included
> > > in gen-make.py. We stopped doing this,
> >
> > Do you recall when we stopped doing this? I don't recall it ever
> > working for me.
>
> Maybe it never did, but I sure thought so. I cannot tell from the
> history of gen-make.py. Perhaps that would not be the file to look
> at.

It looks like build.conf was the magic file to check. See r24859 from
May 2007. After 1.4.

I am not against the change, but I think we need to beef up our
documentation on how to build APR-Util properly so we can use it with
BDB. We also never followed through on this thread that let to this
change:

http://svn.haxx.se/dev/archive-2007-04/0091.shtml

Specifically, the plan was to provide a complete set of pre-built
dependencies and the build system would be able to use them. This
partial change appears to have made things worse.

-- 
Thanks
Mark Phippard
http://markphip.blogspot.com/
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