On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 3:40 AM, Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar
Arahesis<Arfrever.FTA_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> 2009-06-21 03:17:53 Hyrum K. Wright napisał(a):
>>
>> On Jun 20, 2009, at 8:10 PM, Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis wrote:
>>
>> > 2009-06-21 02:44:45 Bert Huijben napisał(a):
>> >>> -----Original Message-----
>> >>> From: Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis
>> >>> [mailto:Arfrever.FTA_at_GMail.Com]
>> >>> Sent: zaterdag 20 juni 2009 22:15
>> >>> To: svn_at_subversion.tigris.org
>> >>> Subject: svn commit: r38120 - in trunk: . build/ac-macros
>> >>> subversion/bindings/swig/perl/native
>> >>>
>> >>> Author: arfrever
>> >>> Date: Sat Jun 20 13:14:53 2009
>> >>> New Revision: 38120
>> >>>
>> >>> Log:
>> >>> Try to avoid linking against unused libraries.
>> >>> Libraries printed by `apr-1-config --libs` / `apu-1-config --libs`
>> >>> might be
>> >>> needed only for static linking.
>> >>
>> >> I think this patch caused the builds on the mac-buildbot to fail
>> >> (it can't
>> >> find expat any more).
>> >> See http://crest.ics.uci.edu/buildbot/waterfall
>> >
>> > It's a bug in configuration of this buildbot.
>> > I checked log of build 790 and I think that this buildbot should
>> > pass the following option to `configure` script of Subversion:
>> >
>> > --with-expat=/Users/lgo/slavedir/osx10.4-gcc4.0.1-ia32/build/apr-
>> > util/xml/expat/lib:/Users/lgo/slavedir/osx10.4-gcc4.0.1-ia32/build/
>> > apr-util/xml/expat/lib:expat
>>
>> If expat was being found just fine before r38120
>
> It was being found only because APR-Util was accidentally linked against Expat
> and apu-1-config was providing path to Expat directory which was used during
> building of APR-Util.
>
>> what's the point of now requiring configure to be explicitly told about it?
>
> `apr-1-config --libs` and `apu-1-config --libs` (similarly to discouraged
> `neon-config --libs`) print many libraries which aren't directly used by
> Subversion (e.g. libraries belonging to e2fsprogs-libs, OpenLDAP, GDBM, MySQL,
> PostgreSQL etc.). It can cause (almost always causes) that Subversion libraries
> will be needlessly linked against these unneeded libraries.
>
> For example, if a user first builds APR-Util with support for OpenLDAP and
> builds Subversion, but next decides to uninstall OpenLDAP, libraries belonging
> to both APR-Util and Subversion will be still linked against OpenLDAP libraries
> (libldap.so and liblber.so), and this user will have to rebuild both APR-Util
> and Subversion to be able to use Subversion. Before rebuilding Subversion,
> this user will get e.g.:
> svn: error while loading shared libraries: libldap.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
>
> On my system:
> $ apr-1-config --libs
> -luuid -lrt -lcrypt -lpthread -ldl
> $ apu-1-config --libs
> -lldap -llber -llber -ldb-4.7 -lgdbm -lexpat
>
>> Seems like a regression in functionality to me...
>
> Actually it's an enhancement :) .
Arfrever,
why not add the expat library path from apr-util to the configuration
if no other was selected? Apr-util provides me expat, I have no desire
to use another installed xml library so I'd like configure to figure
that out for itself.
thanks,
Lieven
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Received on 2009-06-21 17:50:08 CEST