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Re: apr version problem with subversion 1.42

From: Erik Huelsmann <ehuels_at_gmail.com>
Date: 2006-12-07 17:29:31 CET

On 12/7/06, Kris Deugau <kdeugau@vianet.ca> wrote:
> warren.l.dodge@exgate.tek.com wrote:
> > Hi, I have a question about subversion-1.42
> >
> > I am using gnu-Linux and have the apr package version 0.9.4 which
> > doesn't match the needs for subversion
> >
> > checking APR version... 0.9.4
> > wanted regexes are 0\.9\.[7-9] 0\.9\.1[0-9] 1\.
> > configure: error: invalid apr version found
> >
> > Do you know if 0.9.4 is "ok" or not? We are at the mercy of Redhat in
> > updating this so it is unlikely to happen anytime soon.
>
> This sounds like RHEL3 or RHEL4. FWIW, I've been using Subversion on
> both, compiled against the native 0.9.4 APR version, without trouble for
> a while now.
>
> I haven't stressed Subversion very hard, but I've used just about every
> capability at least once.
>
> Replacing APR on RHEL is something of a major headache, because it isn't
> packaged separately; it's part of the Apache2 (httpd) package. There
> are a LONG list of patches for this package; I suspect that whatever
> made the upstream APR unsuitable at that particular version isn't a factor.

Especially if you are using FSFS, you want to make *really* sure: one
of the patches should address the issue that many buffered file
operations flushed file output by calling apr_file_flush(), but didn't
check the return value of that call. I had my (admittedly client side)
svn end up in an endless loop because of it.

If you compile your own version and overwrite the existing APR 0.9.4
binaries with it, you should be in the clear: APR versions are fully
backward compatible within the same major version.

bye,

Erik.

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