On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 03:21:55PM +0000, Julian Foad wrote: > So it sounds like if we were to make the build system effectively > require (or even automatically perform) a "make uninstall" before > "make", that would solve it. That's not a good solution in general > because it's useful to be able to build before losing the current > install,
That would disturb my setup at least. Could you script around it in your setup, maybe? > on systems where that works, but it sounds like it would fix > the problem on systems like mine. Even a pre-make check that reported > "WARNING: You have Subversion libraries already installed in the > installation directory. This is known to cause incorrect linking on some > systems." would help. Yes, printing this warning would help. Stefan
