You can get mysterious messages even without those confusing --with-this
--with-that options!
What was the entire ./configure incantation that worked for you?
Perhaps there is something that I just don't realize that I need.
I thought I just needed --without-bdb. I didn't see any explicit
statement of failure, but what I installed (1.4.0) doesn't work.
I was not aware of 'readelf'. Thanks.
David Tonhofer wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have managed to compile "subversion" from the source with not too many
> problems (which is nice) but was slowed down somewhat by the problems noted
> below. I guess these should be noted/remarked upon more clearly either
> in the
> output of './configure --help' or in the INSTALL readme file.
>
>
>
> 1) When installing with the minimal prerequisite packages, i.e. when doing:
>
> $ tar xzvf subversion-1.x.x.tar.gz
> $ tar xzvf subversion-deps-1.x.x.tar.gz
> $ cd subversion-1.x.x
>
> then one MUST NOT run ./configure with options "|--with-apr"| or
> "|--with-apr-util" otherwise mysterious configuration/compilation errors
> will occur.
>
>
>
> 2) When compiling on an x85_64 architecture then (at least when one
> compiles 'neon' along with the rest), one MUST add the '|--enable-shared'
> option to ./configure (even though this is supposed to be the default) as
> otherwise neon compilation will cause grief:
>
> "|relocation R_X86_64_32 against `a local symbol' can not be used when
> making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC|."
> |
> "|--enable-shared" is not needed on 32-bit Intel architecture for
> compilation
> to work.
>
>
>
> X) Bonus command: What libraries have been used to build 'svn'?
>
> readelf --dynamic svn
>
>
>
> Best regards - and happy new year.
>
>
> -- David
>
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