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

On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 08:02:07PM -0000, Max Bowsher wrote:
> Steve Greenland wrote:
> Client only-ness only applies to the compilation of svnserve. That's _one_
> C file, and _one_ program link. A tiny amount of processing compared to the
> rest of the compilation.
>
> >In particular, I could significant time on some of my machines if I
> >could tell it
> >I think they are not always passed to the sub-configures.)
>
> Subconfigures? The only subconfigures run are apr, apr-util, and neon.

I thought I had previously posted the relevant parts of the configure
logs; I'll need to dig them out again, I guess.

>
> Are you speaking of apr-util still looking for BDB? That's the only thing I
> can think of.
>
> If so, see the apr-util configure --help for appropriate flags.

Ummm, if I pass --without-berkeley-db to subversion's configure, it
needs to pass the appropriate flags to apr-util. (And it might well be: I don't
remember the exact problem I was seeing.)

> >language bindings, etc.
> Aren't built by default anyway.

Then why are the configures looking for SWIG and Python? That I *do* remember.

> >For those of us who need to support a variety of
> >architectures locally, this would be useful.
>
> If you are supporting a variety of architectures, surely it can't be too
> much trouble to write a 1-line script containing your preferred ./configure
> invocation?

Nope, but that only help me.

> A few emails here and there, versus a non-trivial amount of extra
> complexity in the build-system.

Is making --client-config an alias for a combination of various
--without* and --disable* options really a big deal? (Forget not
building svnadmin et. al., you're right, it's not that big a deal.)

> So, I'm voting -0 on a --client-only patch.
> That's not a veto - you can try mail dev@ and persuade some other
> committers that it would be good idea if you like - but I personally won't
> be the one approving this.

Well, time for me to put up or shut up. :-) I God, I hate messing with
autoconf...

Steve

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