-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote: > 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.
Thanks. I'll revisit the patch and commit it once my commit access is set up. (Currently pending confirmation of ICLA receipt.) > I presume you are only talking about ./configure portability against > installed apr trees; the ./buildconf would still use the source apr > distribution, right? That's correct. Max. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (Cygwin) iD8DBQFD7djKfFNSmcDyxYARAhXUAKCM6euA1FFRnilC2frS7t28MdTRDgCfbcUn yjmQPHAXR+hxxWxfTwtKdbk= =x7uu -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
