Re: Building subversion runs svnversion, which fails

On Sun, Nov 17, 2019 at 4:24 PM Nathan Hartman <hartman.nathan_at_gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Sun, Nov 17, 2019 at 2:47 PM Ryan Schmidt <subversion-
> 2019_at_ryandesign.com> wrote:
> > The MacPorts maintainer of subversion suggested:
> >
> >> That's almost certainly from the revision-install target in the
> >> top level makefile. If it ran, it would populate
> >> ${prefix}/include/subversion-1/svn-revision.txt with "Unversioned
> >> directory", since it crashes that file gets populated with
> >> "unknown". I don't think it actually matters.
>
> Wait a minute.
>
> "Unversioned directory" is one of the possible outputs of svnversion.
>

(snip)

That tells me that it must be running, not crashing.
>
> Of course, I could be mistaken.
>

I was mistaken.

You wrote that the file contains "unknown" not "Unversioned directory"; I
misread that earlier. In this case, yes, it is crashing. The "unknown" is
produced by the makefile if all else fails. The OR logic is also the reason
why 'make' doesn't quit at this point.

I am not at my computer right now so I cannot test why this is failing. It
might have something to do with order of operations. I'll investigate
further...

Thanks for your report...

Nathan
Received on 2019-11-18 02:45:30 CET