> From: Justin Erenkrantz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 12 September 2002 03:25
> On Wed, Sep 11, 2002 at 09:14:37PM -0400, Garrett Rooney wrote: > > one question though. when i download the apr-util-0.9.1.tar.gz tarball > > and untar it, the configure script errors out. it's trying to find > > install-sh or install.sh in ../apr/build, but it can't find it, since > > while i do happen to have the apr-0.9.1 tarball untarred in the same > > directory, it is in a directory named apr-0.9.1, not apr. > > Now you know why we needed to go through the mechanics of a > release. =) > > The fix, of course, is to extract stuff to apr and apr-util > (no version numbers and in parallel). > > > adding --with-apr=../apr-0.9.1 does not seem to help. > > It has to do with autoconf hardcoding the apr path in configure > via AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR(../apr/build) in configure.in. > > What we may need to do is to create an apr-build module that > allows us to store the config.guess/config.sub/install.sh/mkdir.sh > files that we can force all projects to check out locally rather > than having their own local (potentially stale) copy. > > Thoughts? But, somehow APR-util needs its own local copy of these > files, but I'd rather see us consolidate them somehow. -- justin +1 on an apr-build project/module for exactly the stated reasons. Sander
