Re: subversion 1.5 rc11 fails to build on Fedora [ FC7 ]

Murli Varadachari wrote:
>
> I am having some trouble building subversion 1.5 rc11 on fedora core 7.
> The build aborts [ during compilation ] with this message
>
> /usr/lib/libexpat.so: could not read symbols: File in wrong format
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> make[2]: *** [libaprutil-1.la] Error 1
>
>
> My build host is : 2.6.21-1.3228.fc7
> The latest “expat” package is installed on this host I.e expat-1.95.8-9
> [ /usr/lib64/libexpat.so.0.5.0 ].
>
> However I can build using the version of expat that is included in the
> dependencies tar file “subversion-deps-1.5.0-rc11.tar.gz” . This one
> appears to be an older revision 1.95.2 [ libexpat.so.0.1.0].
>
> My preference would be to build with the newer revision. Is this a
> known issue?. Any help would be appreciated.
>
>
> Cheers
> murli

It looks like you're trying to build an x86_64 binary but linking with a i386 .so.

Since you're on Fedora, don't use any of the deps and just use the supplied
RPMs, that's my recommendation.

Regards,
Blair

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