[users] Subversion 1.4.2 for FC4?

[Dag Wieers]

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

> On Thu, 14 Dec 2006 13:59:01 +0100 (CET) Dag Wieers <dag at wieers.com> wrote:
> > 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:
> > > 
> > > > 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.
> 
> Agreed. I gave both apr and apr-utils a try, using apr 0.9.6 SRPM as
> a starting point, and here's what I got:
> 
> - apr 0.9.7 fails compilation
> - apr 0.9.{11,13} compile just fine, all tests pass
> - apr-utils 0.9.7 fails compilation
> - apr-utils 0.9.{11,13} compile but tests fail
> 
> So, AFAICS it's not possible to have apr and apr-utils >= 0.9.6
> on FC4 without applying some patches.
> 
> BTW: just to try it out, I manually edited 'configure' script for
> subversion 1.4.2 and changed the apr version number validation regexes
> to accept 0.9.6, and compilation happened just fine. However, I can't
> say if this is a good or a bad thing...

I prefer not to do that, still we may inquire the developers why they've 
set the requirement and see what they say.

PS If I remember correctly, subversion 1.3 was shipped with it's own apr. 
They stopped doing that for 1.4, maybe because it introduces 
incompatibilities with the native apr afterwards.

Kind regards,
--   dag wieers,  dag at wieers.com,  http://dag.wieers.com/   --
[all I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power]