Branko Čibej wrote on Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 08:47:40 +0200: > On 23.08.2015 23:27, Stefan Fuhrmann wrote: > > The latest relevant section taken from that issue: > > > > Secondly, I would like to install Subversion 1.9 to try it out, but I'm > > running > >> CentOS 6.4 and I just can't get Subversion 1.9 to build. As I mentioned > >> below, I > >> have to download the latest Serf version, which doesn't come with CentOS > >> 6.4. > >> And building serf doesn't work. I try just "scons", but then "scons check" > >> fails > >> with things like "test/test_buckets.c:1559: warning: integer overflow in > >> expression". Plus scons wants "APR", "APU", "OPENSSL", and "PREFIX" > >> parameters > >> (according to the README.TXT). I'm sure my APR path isn't correct---on this > >> server I used the Apache from yum and don't know where my APR libraries > >> are. I > >> don't even know what APU is. So it seems highly unlikely for me to get > >> HTTP(S) > >> support on Subversion 1.9. The Subversion build process is and has always > >> been > >> an utterly brittle mess. See Bug 4589 > >> <http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=4589>, which > >> indicates my frustration. > >> > >> > > Is there anything we can reasonably do about it? > > > Other than reduce the number of dependencies? Not really. Building from > source is always non-trivial, especially building from scratch. The fact > that Serf uses scons is hardly an additional complication; their README > file explicitly mentions apu-1-config, one only has to actually read the > file instead of stopping at the first thing that looks like a build > command line.
The reader of README might not know what APR is, that APR has a component called apr-util, that that component is sometimes abbreviated "apu", etc. I think the README file is unclear to someone who does not already know what APR and APU are. And I think it would be good to make serf's README clear even to people who don't already know what apr and openssl are. Cheers, Daniel
