Re: How to build the svn-client only from source tarball

On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 02:59:31PM -0000, Max Bowsher wrote:
>
> There is no way to select a client only build, because the only thing you
> would save would be 5-10 seconds of compilation time, which is rather
> irrelevant in the context of the several minutes for the rest of the build.

It must be a pleasure to never have to work on slow machines.

In particular, I could significant time on some of my machines if I
could tell it

- Don't even look for BDB
- Don't even look for Apache stuff
- Don't even look for SWIG, or python, or perl, or java.

(Yes, there are options to do that, and I use them. But they don't work
reliably - I think they are not always passed to the sub-configures.)

Max, I understand you don't care about this. Would you accept a patch
that implemented a reasonable --client-only, for those of us that do?
I think a reasonable 'client-only' definition is no BDB support, and
built only svn, no attempt to build the admin tools, webdav stuff,
language bindings, etc. For those of us who need to support a variety of
architectures locally, this would be useful. If nothing else, it would
shutup the people who can't find the --client-only configuration option.

Steve

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