Re: Is it practical to build my own local svn on a shared host?

On 3/30/11 1:06 AM, Jerry Miller wrote:
> I'm working under the constraints of a shared
> hosting service that doesn't offer SSH or SVN.
> I can get around the lack of SSH, albeit at some
> inconvenience, but for putting out fires, there's
> no substitute I know of for SVN. There are a
> number of binaries for different flavors of Linux,
> but none for GNU/Linux, unless one of the others
> is compatible.

GNU/Linux is a generic description. Do you have a more specific distribution
version you have to match?

> There is a cpp compiler, but the
> last time I tried to create my own local Apache,
> MySQL, and PHP instances, I had to edit the
> makefiles to fix errors, so I'd rather skip that
> if I can, especially if I have to work through a
> backdoor script!

The popular linux distributions have packaged (rpm/deb/etc.) applications and if
you can't get an exact binary to work, you can usually get the closest matching
source package for that system and rebuild it.

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   Les Mikesell
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