On Wed, 2005-09-21 at 21:11 -0400, Kevin Slater wrote:
> Ok, from the download link on the Subversion website you can find
> packages that will install just fine on Redhat 9. (At least they did
> for me.)
>
> However, what's this about FSFS being preferred over BDB? Seems like
> the reverse was true not long ago. Is there a compelling reason why
> FSFS is better than BDB?
>
FSFS is relatively new to the game - thus the apparent "turn around".
For me, FSFS has been much more reliable and easier to maintain than
the BDB setup, but I know others swear the other way. As my grandmother
always told me, that's why they make chocolate *and* vanilla ice cream.
> ...Kevin
>
> On 9/21/05, Goddard Lee <lee.goddard@easa.eu.int> wrote:
> I have subversion on a recentish RedHat, and had the same
> problems as you did.
>
> Do not use the latest SWIG - the docs lie, they do not support
> 1.3.24 and up, but do support 1.3.24. That'll solve your SWIG
> problem.
>
> BDB is a simillar story -- you probably have BDB 1 on RH, and
> the very latest DBD doesn't work with RH, so my advice is
> either ask me offlist to find the BDB version that works, or
> better still, use the FSFS, which is much nicer, everyone will
> agree.
>
> Good luck, get in touch if I can help.
>
> lee
>
>
>
> Lee Goddard
> Internet Application Development, European Aviation Safety
> Agency
>
> T: +49 221 89990 3221
> E: Lee.Goddard@EASA.EU.int
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Philip Radford [mailto:phil@chycor.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2005 5:28 PM
> To: users@subversion.tigris.org
> Subject: Installing Subversion on Red Hat 9
>
>
> Hi all,
>
> I have recently come across subversion for the use of
> controlling our development projects.
>
> I am attempting to install verson 1.2.3 on Red Hat 9
> (Shrike) with limited success.
>
> I have untarred the source distribution, obtained
> berkeley db 4.3.28 and needed to locate swig 1.3.25 as
> it could not find that on the system.
>
> After the first configure, make and make install any
> utility that was run such as svn and svnadmin resulted
> in a 'segmentation fault' message being displayed.
>
> I then repeated the process making sure to note any
> errors. The following is an extract from the make
> install section.
>
> ------------------------------------
>
> Libraries have been installed in:
> /usr/local/lib
>
> If you ever happen to want to link against installed
> libraries
> in a given directory, LIBDIR, you must either use
> libtool, and
> specify the full pathname of the library, or use the
> `-LLIBDIR'
> flag during linking and do at least one of the
> following:
> - add LIBDIR to the `LD_LIBRARY_PATH' environment
> variable
> during execution
> - add LIBDIR to the `LD_RUN_PATH' environment
> variable
> during linking
> - use the `-Wl,--rpath -Wl,LIBDIR' linker flag
> - have your system administrator add LIBDIR to
> `/etc/ld.so.conf'
>
> See any operating system documentation about shared
> libraries for
> more information, such as the ld(1) and ld.so(8)
> manual pages.
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> cd
> subversion/libsvn_wc ; /bin/sh /usr/local/src/subversion-1.2.3/libtool --mode=install /usr/local/src/subversion-1.2.3/ac-helpers/install-sh -c libsvn_wc-1.la /usr/local/lib/libsvn_wc-1.la
> libtool: install: warning: relinking `libsvn_wc-1.la'
> (cd /usr/local/src/subversion-1.2.3/subversion/libsvn_wc; /bin/sh /usr/local/src/subversion-1.2.3/libtool --tag=CC --silent --mode=relink gcc -g -O2 -g -O2 -pthread -DNEON_ZLIB -rpath /usr/local/lib -o libsvn_wc-1.la adm_crawler.lo adm_files.lo adm_ops.lo copy.lo diff.lo entries.lo lock.lo log.lo merge.lo props.lo questions.lo relocate.lo status.lo translate.lo update_editor.lo util.lo ../../subversion/libsvn_delta/libsvn_delta-1.la ../../subversion/libsvn_subr/libsvn_subr-1.la ../../subversion/libsvn_diff/libsvn_diff-1.la /usr/local/src/subversion-1.2.3/apr-util/libaprutil-0.la -lgdbm -ldb-4.0 -lexpat /usr/local/src/subversion-1.2.3/apr/libapr-0.la -lrt -lm -lcrypt -lnsl -lpthread -ldl )
> libtool: link: warning: `/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-
> linux/3.2.2/../../..//libgdbm.la' seems to be moved
> libtool: link: warning: `/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-
> linux/3.2.2/../../..//libdb-4.0.la' seems to be moved
> libtool: link: warning: `/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-
> linux/3.2.2/../../..//libexpat.la' seems to be moved
> libtool: link: warning: `/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-
> linux/3.2.2/../../..//libgdbm.la' seems to be moved
> libtool: link: warning: `/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-
> linux/3.2.2/../../..//libdb-4.0.la' seems to be moved
> libtool: link: warning: `/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-
> linux/3.2.2/../../..//libexpat.la' seems to be moved
> libtool: link: warning: `/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-
> linux/3.2.2/../../..//libgdbm.la' seems to be moved
> libtool: link: warning: `/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-
> linux/3.2.2/../../..//libdb-4.0.la' seems to be moved
> libtool: link: warning: `/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-
> linux/3.2.2/../../..//libexpat.la' seems to be moved
> /usr/local/src/subversion-1.2.3/ac-helpers/install-sh
> -
> c .libs/libsvn_wc-1.so.0.0.0T /usr/local/lib/libsvn_wc-1.so.0.0.0
> (cd /usr/local/lib && rm -f libsvn_wc-1.so.0 && ln -s
> libsvn_wc-1.so.0.0.0 libsvn_wc-1.so.0)
> (cd /usr/local/lib && rm -f libsvn_wc-1.so && ln -s
> libsvn_wc-1.so.0.0.0 libsvn_wc-1.so)
> /usr/local/src/subversion-1.2.3/ac-helpers/install-sh
> -c .libs/libsvn_wc-1.lai /usr/local/lib/libsvn_wc-1.la
> /usr/local/src/subversion-1.2.3/ac-helpers/install-sh
> -c .libs/libsvn_wc-1.a /usr/local/lib/libsvn_wc-1.a
> ranlib /usr/local/lib/libsvn_wc-1.a
> chmod 644 /usr/local/lib/libsvn_wc-1.a
> PATH="$PATH:/sbin" ldconfig -n /usr/local/lib
>
> ------------------------------------
>
> I can only assume that this linking warning is the
> cause of subversion not compiling correctly and
> therefore not running.
>
> It seems to be that it is looking for libdb-4.0.la
> which is not on the system but I have supplied the
> path to the latest berkeley db using the configure
> command :-
>
> ./configure --with-apr=/usr/local/apache --with-apr-
> util=/usr/local/apache -with-berkeley-
> db=/usr/local/src/db-4.3.28 --with-swig=/usr/local
>
> I would be grateful for any advice or guidance in this
> matter.
>
> Regards
> Philip Radford.
>
>
>
> --
>
> -- "Thank God for Microsoft" - Linus Torvalds
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