Re: svn commit: r901778 - /subversion/trunk/build.conf

On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 03:21:55PM +0000, Julian Foad wrote:
> So it sounds like if we were to make the build system effectively
> require (or even automatically perform) a "make uninstall" before
> "make", that would solve it. That's not a good solution in general
> because it's useful to be able to build before losing the current
> install,

That would disturb my setup at least.
Could you script around it in your setup, maybe?

> on systems where that works, but it sounds like it would fix
> the problem on systems like mine. Even a pre-make check that reported
> "WARNING: You have Subversion libraries already installed in the
> installation directory. This is known to cause incorrect linking on some
> systems." would help.

Yes, printing this warning would help.

Stefan
Received on 2010-01-22 16:44:12 CET