Max Bowsher wrote:
Joe Orton wrote:
On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 04:45:41PM -0000, Max Bowsher wrote:
Currently, apr-util 0.9.x requires that apr source be available in
order to
configure and make.
This makes it awkward to package apr-util using a packaging system. This
overly close coupling has already been fixed in 1.x, and I'd like
0.9.x to
get the benefit too.
I'm not sure that's strong enough motivation to put this in 0.9.x and
risk breaking the build in some new and interesting way. (I introduced
at least one regression during those changes IIRC)
That's true, but since then, those changes have been in all apr versions
since 1.0.0, so the final fixed form of the changes has had extensive
testing.
The patches are also not very complex.
There is always some risk of breaking something when introducing
changes, but I think in this case it is rather small.
If you would like to commit this, I'm willing to validate on Solaris x86 in my
more-sophisticated VPATH build environment, that all is well.
I presume you are only talking about ./configure portability against installed
apr trees; the ./buildconf would still use the source apr distribution, right?
Bill
