On Sat, 10 Dec 2011, O. Hartmann wrote:

On 12/10/11 14:51, Chuck Burns wrote:
On Saturday, December 10, 2011 7:35:27 AM Chuck Burns wrote:
Here is quick, hackish patch to allow your make update to work, it appears
that the Makefile.inc1 does not include the full path to svn, while it does
include the full path to cvs and other tools, this makes me think that the
user path is ignored (which is a good thing)


Heh, I am notorious for overthinking things.  My bad.. yes, just add
SVN=/usr/local/bin/svn
to your /etc/make.conf file

 --
Chuck Burns
Hello.

I did this already, since it looked logical to me.
It isn't simply about "please add ..." hakish things. If there would be
no objection, it is a nice move to have the SVN variable setting
mentioned in the man page for make.conf.

If it isn't opportune to have the user-path in the system's search path,
then a note should be droped into the manpage to inform the admin or
user to set the SVN variable properly.

So, something like the attached?

-Ben Kaduk
--- make.conf.5.orig    2011-12-10 19:04:21.000000000 -0500
+++ make.conf.5 2011-12-10 19:10:13.000000000 -0500
@@ -333,6 +333,12 @@
 .Pa src
 tree with
 .Dq Li "make update" .
+Note that since there is not a subversion client in the base system,
+you will need to set
+.Va SVN
+to the path to a
+.Xr svn 1
+binary.
 .It Va WWWSUPFILE
 .Pq Vt str
 The www
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