On 21.11.2012 21:07, Ben Reser wrote: > This came up recently on the svn-dev list. > > http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/subversion-dev/201211.mbox/browser > > It doesn't build because libtool.m4 that comes with libtool 2.4 uses: > LIBTOOL='$(SHELL) $(top_builddir)/libtool' > > And APR doesn't define top_builddir. > > In 1.4 and newer versions of APR this has been resolved by running a > sed command against build/libtool.m4 to replace top_builddir with > apr_builddir. > > Specifically, this was done in r1125475 on apr-trunk. > > Based on this google search quite a few people seem to have run into this: > https://www.google.com/search?q=apr+1.3+LIBTOOL+top_builddir > > I realize that APR 1.3.x is probably not something you care about > terribly much since development has moved along. However, Subversion > still has places where we recommend that in our instructions (e.g. > Subversion 1.7.x), which I'm going to get corrected, but obviously > can't correct the existing older versions in the wild. > > In the interest of users though I think it might be nice to patch the > 1.3.x branch so that it either builds with libtool 2.4 (e.g. adopting > the fix newer versions of APR have) or make buildconf refuse to work > with newer libtools.
I backported a few build fixes to 1.3.x. I'm not very confident though that there will be enough momentum for a release, but at least there are 1.3 svn revisions now, that you can refer people to: r1412309: buildconf fixes including the one above r1412318: apr_common.m4 fixes r1412321: Updates for config.guess and config.sub r1412330: Makefile.in fixes Regards, Rainer
