Author: lyalyakin
Date: Fri Aug 28 13:39:07 2026
New Revision: 1937573
Log:
Move the get-deps.sh description into a dedicated section
'Note on get-deps.sh'.
The typical reader of the INSTALL guide doesn't need get-deps.sh, but the
script is currently presented as the right tool for getting dependencies, even
for the simplest 'just installing a Subversion client' scenario.
* INSTALL
(I.C): Add a sentence suggesting that the simplest path for getting the
dependencies is the operating system's package manager.
(I.C): Move the get-deps.sh paragraphs into a new section
'Note on get-deps.sh'.
(I.C.19): Remove the reference to the moved text, which now is directly
below I.C.19.
Modified:
subversion/trunk/INSTALL
Modified: subversion/trunk/INSTALL
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--- subversion/trunk/INSTALL Fri Aug 28 13:34:31 2026 (r1937572)
+++ subversion/trunk/INSTALL Fri Aug 28 13:39:07 2026 (r1937573)
@@ -166,26 +166,15 @@ I. INTRODUCTION
what other tools and libraries will be required so that Subversion
can be built with the set of features you want.
+ The easiest way to install dependencies is via your operating system's
+ package management system.
+
On Unix systems, the './configure' script will tell you if you are
missing the correct version of any of the required libraries or
tools, so if you are in a real hurry to get building, you can skip
straight to section II. If you want to gather the pieces you will
need before starting out, however, you should read the following.
- If you're just installing a Subversion client, the Subversion
- team has created a script that downloads the minimal prerequisite
- libraries (Apache Portable Runtime, Sqlite, and Zlib). The script,
- 'get-deps.sh', is available in the same directory as this file.
- When run, it will place 'apr', 'apr-util', 'serf', 'zlib', and
- 'sqlite-amalgamation' directories directly into your unpacked Subversion
- distribution. With the exception of sqlite-amalgamation, they will
- still need to be configured, built and installed explicitly, and
- Subversion's own configure script may need to be told where to find
- them, if they were not installed in standard system locations.
-
- Note: there are optional dependencies (such as swig and httpd)
- which get-deps.sh does not download.
-
Note: Because previous builds of Subversion may have installed older
versions of these libraries, you may want to run some of the cleanup
commands described in section II.B before installing the following.
@@ -519,8 +508,23 @@ I. INTRODUCTION
https://github.com/encukou/py3c
On Unix systems, you can also use the provided get-deps.sh
- script to download py3c and several other dependencies; see the
- top of section I.C for more about get-deps.sh.
+ script to download py3c and several other dependencies.
+
+
+ Note on get-deps.sh
+
+ The Subversion team has created a script that downloads the minimal
+ prerequisite libraries (Apache Portable Runtime, Sqlite, and Zlib). The
+ script, 'get-deps.sh', is available in the same directory as this file.
+ When run, it will place 'apr', 'apr-util', 'serf', 'zlib', and
+ 'sqlite-amalgamation' directories directly into your unpacked Subversion
+ distribution. With the exception of sqlite-amalgamation, they will
+ still need to be configured, built and installed explicitly, and
+ Subversion's own configure script may need to be told where to find
+ them, if they were not installed in standard system locations.
+
+ There are optional dependencies (such as swig and httpd) which
+ get-deps.sh does not download.
D. Documentation
