Good catch, and unfortunately something I'm responsible for. It has been a long term project to review and try to update build-svn-deps-win.pl to a working state. I have something half finished but I never got around to complete it. That project started long before we had CMake but I agree it superseeds this script.
Awk was required for something, can't remember what right now, but there was something that made the sourceforge version unsuitable. Still, it seems like a bad idea to distribute the source with our tarballs. As for removing build-svn-deps-win.pl completely, I'm fine with that. It clearly isn't working in the current state and if someone is using it, they already have their own patched version. /Daniel Den tors 16 juli 2026 kl 15:53 skrev Ivan Zhakov <[email protected]>: > I have just noticed that source tree and tarball contains awk source code. > It was added in r1914373 [1] > [[[ > In tools/dev: Copy awk from > https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/httpd/httpd/win32-msi/trunk/awk > > build-svn-deps-win.pl require AWK but a binary version is not so easy to > find > anymore. Thus include the sources here so we can build our own. > ]]] > > However: > > 1. Apache HTTP Server no longer requires AWK for CMake-based build since > r1919413. The change was backported to Apache HTTP Server 2.4.x in r1926319 > [3]. > > 2. tools/dev/awk is included in tarball, but NOTICE doesn't contains > Copyright information for awk source code. > > 3. The build-svn-deps-win.pl script uses NMake-based build for Apache > HTTP server, which is outdated. > > 4. I would say that most parts of the build-svn-deps-win.pl script are > superseded by using CMake together with vcpkg (also described in INSTALL). > > 5. The build-svn-deps-win.pl script doesn't validate checksums when > fetching remote data. > > Given all the above I suggest we remove tools/dev/awk and tools/dev/ > build-svn-deps-win.pl from source code and final Subversion 1.15.0 > tarball. > > Thoughts? > > [1]: https://svn.apache.org/viewvc/?revision=1914373&view=revision > [2]: https://svn.apache.org/viewvc/?revision=r1919413&view=revision > [3]: https://svn.apache.org/viewvc/?revision=r1926319&view=revision > > -- > Ivan Zhakov >
