complicated build, subversion client

for some time i participate in a small group of people packaging
subversion for solaris within the opencsw project. while we love to
use subversion a lot because it easily scales to terabytes of data
managed, we continue to have two problems building, for years now:

1. client build
personally i find it particularly difficult to separate out a "common
build", and "client build" and "server build" which both may depend on
it.

2. comlicated build
the build itself is so complicated that, since i can remember, we
continually fail to package a current version of subversion.

what would be a good way to address this in your opinion? would it be
possible to switch the build system to something easier to handle and
introduce proper dependencies?

kr, rupert.
Received on 2011-05-29 15:56:48 CEST