[indiana-discuss] current state of affairs..

[Moinak Ghosh]

On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 2:00 AM, Sriram
Natarajan<Sriram.Natarajan at sun.com> wrote:
> Hi
> Thought, I would share some of the pains I had to go through today to simply
> get a new version of subversion my system for some of my development work.
>  Unfortunately, OpenSolaris 2009.06 (build 111) - my primary workstation -
> has a very old version of subversion. Now, when I tried to compile it by
> myself, I ran into weird compilation errors like
>
> cd subversion-1.6.3 ;
>
> checking APR-UTIL version... 1.3.4
> checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config
> configure: checking neon library
> checking neon library version... 0.25.5
> configure: error: cannot find Neon
>

   Almost all FOSS projects use Linux as the primary development OS so
   builds just work on Linux. When trying to build FOSS stuff on OpenSolaris
   distributions it is recommended to look at existing SPEC files for working
   build recipes like the SFE repo:
   http://pkgbuild.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/pkgbuild/spec-files-extra/trunk/

   and the BeleniX repo:
   http://belenix.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/belenix/trunk/spec_files/

   Since you appear to be behind SUN's firewall you should have easy access
   to the SFW gate though the Makefiles are not exactly simple to understand.

   This will save a lot of heartburn.

Regards,
Moinak.
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