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Re: svn commit: r38120 - in trunk: . build/ac-macros subversion/bindings/swig/perl/native

From: Hyrum K. Wright <hyrum_at_hyrumwright.org>
Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2009 12:44:30 -0500

On Jun 21, 2009, at 5:48 PM, Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis wrote:

> 2009-06-21 23:25:15 Greg Stein napisaƂ(a):
>> On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 03:40, Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar
>> Arahesis<Arfrever.FTA_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>>> ...
>>>> 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.
>>
>> That is NOT an "accident". That is entirely by design.
>
> So the design is broken.
> Even libaprutil-1.so isn't linked against libraries printed by
> `apu-1-config --libs`, so linking against these libraries would slow
> down
> Subversion at run-time (ld.so would have to load attitional
> libraries).
>
> $ apu-1-config --libs
> -lldap -llber -llber -ldb-4.7 -lgdbm -lexpat
> $ scanelf -qF '%F: %n' /usr/lib64/libaprutil-1.so
> /usr/lib64/libaprutil-1.so: libexpat.so.1,libapr-1.so.0,libcrypt.so.
> 1,libpthread.so.0,libc.so.6
>
>> APRUTIL is *supposed* to be linked against Expat on the system, and
>> SVN is *supposed* to use that fact to find Expat for its own usage.
>>
>>> ...
>>>> Seems like a regression in functionality to me...
>>>
>>> Actually it's an enhancement :) .
>>
>> If I'm required to pass more stuff on the command line, then it is a
>> *regression*. Period. That is the very definition of regression.
>>
>> And if that regression causes a build break, then you better get this
>> fixed before somebody decides to revert it. The last time you broke
>> our build, we said "it is fair to revert when a change breaks the
>> build". You've now broken the build, so it is just a small matter of
>> time before somebody reverts this change. You have until then to fix
>> it.
>
> Fixed in r38132.

The buildbot is still failing to configure. r38120 and friends have
broken the build system, and will be reverted.

-Hyrum

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