[users] Subversion 1.4.2 for FC4?

[Dag Wieers]

On Thu, 14 Dec 2006, Andre Oliveira da Costa wrote:

> On Thu, 14 Dec 2006 08:17:16 -0200
> Andre Oliveira da Costa <costa at tecgraf.puc-rio.br> wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > we're desperately needing Subversion client 1.4.2 for FC4. I tried to
> > build it myself from FC6 SRPM but it depends on apr-devel >= 0.9.7. I
> ...
> 
> Correcting myself: BuildRequires is fine for apr on the SPEC file:
> 
> BuildRequires: apr-devel >= 0.9.6-1, apr-util-devel >= 0.9.5-1
> 
> However, even though versions are compliant:
> 
> ~ rpm -q apr-devel
> apr-devel-0.9.6-3.5
> 
> ~ rpm -q apr-util-devel
> apr-util-devel-0.9.6-2
> 
> build fails:
> 
> checking for APR... yes
> checking APR version... 0.9.6
> wanted regexes are 0\.9\.[7-9] 0\.9\.1[0-9] 1\.
> configure: error: invalid apr version found
> error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.64058 (%build)
>     Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.64058 (%build)
> 
> config.log  on the build dir shows this:
> 
> configure:3258: Apache Portable Runtime (APR) library configuration
> configure:3286: checking for APR
> configure:3368: result: yes
> configure:3521: checking APR version
> configure:3529: result: 0.9.6
> configure:3542: error: invalid apr version found
> 
> Indeed, 0.9.6 doesn't match the regexes 0\.9\.[7-9] 0\.9\.1[0-9] 1\.
> 
> Any clues?

For subversion 1.4.2 you need at least apr 0.9.7. The regexp enforces 
this. It is sad that subversion requires a more recent apr than most 
distributions (notably enterprise distribution) ship with.

This sadly is what happens in Open Source all the time. Applications 
should be more conservative in what they require, especially if this 
regards something as important as the subversion 1.4 updates.

Kind regards,
--   dag wieers,  dag at wieers.com,  http://dag.wieers.com/   --
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