Campbell Allan wrote on Thu, 8 Jul 2010 at 17:13 -0000:
>
> On Thursday 08 Jul 2010, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 7:05 AM, Jason Aubrey <aubreyja_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Hi All,
> > >
> > > I recently set up svn over http for a project I'm involved with. One
> > > user made the following complaints:
> > >
> > > (1) Some svn clients do not support the http protocol. This
> > > is a common occurrence when a user builds svn from source.
> >
> > Yup: if you don't have the HTTPD or Apache include files installed,
> > known as the "httpd-devel" package under RPM based Linux distributions
> > like RedHat and Fedora, you can't build the relevant software because
> > you lack the compilation tools. The "./configure" script detects this
> > and disables the relevant features.
> >
>
> Are you certain about that? Neon or serf provide the client with http support
> and are both in the subversion-deps source tarball. I'm fairly sure all the
> machines I've compiled on have never had the httpd-devel like packages
> installed (or in some cases any dev packages beyond the compiler). https
> support can be tricky as this will require either the openssl dev package to
> be installed or a local build handy.
httpd dev packages are ONLY required to build mod_dav_svn. They are not
required unless you're going to run a server.
Received on 2010-07-09 01:32:12 CEST