Julian Foad <julianf...@btopenworld.com>:
> Eric S. Raymond wrote:
>
> > autogen/configure/make transcript attached. Envronment is a stock Ubuntu
> > system.
>
> I tried to reproduce this, and succeeded. I'm on Ubuntu 11.10; you?
12.10
> It's failing on
> the APR build; what version of APR source do you have here? I guess a dev
> snapshot from the '1.3.x' branch, since your 'configure' reports the APR and
> APR-UTIL versions as 1.3.13, which are not released versions.
I have whatever I get from the wget recommended in the instructions printed
by configure.
> So that makes me want to go
>
> (cd apr/ && ./buildconf && ./configure)
>
> whereupon APR configures itself with its own copy of libtool, placed in path
> "" relative to its own root.
But this doesn't work as a recovery step. What would?
> I think the solution is, if you want to drop a source tree inside
> Subversion's like this, you have to use a tarball of APR (and of APR-UTIL)
> that is packaged with the 'configure' script already built, and not a
> development checkout of APR. Alternatively, to use a development checkout of
> APR, build and install it separately and the point Subversion at the
> installed result of it.
I don't have any particular desire to do either of these things. What I want
is for the build instructions to be clear about what I have to do, and for the
build to succeed when I do it. Right now neither of those things is the case.
> Of course we (and APR) should be able to improve the diagnostics, and/or make
> it work.
Best would be if the configure script knew how to install these
components correctly and just did it, bothering me only when it
detects a failure.
--
<a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond</a>
