Greg Stein <gst...@gmail.com> writes:

> On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 11:16,  <phi...@apache.org> wrote:
>> Author: philip
>> Date: Tue Jun 21 15:16:07 2011
>> New Revision: 1138040
>>
>> URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=1138040&view=rev
>> Log:
>> Support building with APR 2.0.  Berkeley DB detection doesn't work.
>
> I'm not entirely sure that we want to allow this.
>
> We provide strong API guarantees to our third-party applications. But
> our API is inherently tied to the APR API. If somebody upgrades
> Subversion and that brings APR 2.0 along with it, then their
> application may break.
>
> Any thoughts?

It will take a concious decision by the user to use
  --with-apr-util=/path/to/apr-2-config
as configure will not pick up apr-2 automatically unless apr-2-config
masquerades as apu-config (it doesn't in a standard apr-2 install).

We could make it --with-apr2 to make it more obvious.

-- 
Philip

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