Re: Subversion's Berkeley DB detection with APR trunk

"C. Michael Pilato" <cmpilato_at_collab.net> writes:

> I'd be interested in knowing why the --db-version parameter was
> dropped. In the absence of a solid reason, I think APR should be
> changed to support as much.

Probably it's because apr is now modular and BDB support is one of the
things that is loaded dynamically. It's easy enough to reinstate
--db-version, but that doesn't fix Subversion because apr no longer
explicitly links against the BDB library. Subversion's configure fails
its link test with 'undefined reference to db_version'.

Index: apr-config.in
===================================================================
--- apr-config.in (revision 1137909)
+++ apr-config.in (working copy)
@@ -44,6 +44,7 @@
 APR_SO_EXT="@so_ext@"
 APR_LIB_TARGET="@export_lib_target@"
 APR_LIBNAME="@APR_LIBNAME@"
+APU_DB_VERSION="@apu_db_version@"
 
 # NOTE: the following line is modified during 'make install': alter with care!
 location=@APR_CONFIG_LOCATION@
@@ -230,6 +231,10 @@
     fi
     exit 0
     ;;
+ --db-version)
+ echo $APU_DB_VERSION
+ exit 0
+ ;;
     --help)
     show_usage
     exit 0

-- 
Philip