On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 02:42:06PM +0100, Philip Martin wrote: > "C. Michael Pilato" <cmpil...@collab.net> writes: > > > I'd be interested in knowing why the --db-version parameter was > > dropped. In the absence of a solid reason, I think APR should be > > changed to support as much. > > Probably it's because apr is now modular and BDB support is one of the > things that is loaded dynamically. It's easy enough to reinstate > --db-version, but that doesn't fix Subversion because apr no longer > explicitly links against the BDB library. Subversion's configure fails > its link test with 'undefined reference to db_version'.
Does this mean it's no longer possible to compile static svn executables with BDB support if APR trunk is used? This would make it very hard to compile svn/svnadmin for some embedded (or very rare) platforms with ra_local access for BDB repositories.
