Gabriela Gibson wrote on Mon, Mar 04, 2013 at 18:43:29 +0000: > On 04/03/13 18:09, Daniel Shahaf wrote: >> Gabriela Gibson wrote on Mon, Mar 04, 2013 at 17:51:15 +0000: >>> +However, to compile serf with Subversion, the following configure >>> +flags are also required: >>> + >>> + --with-apr=/path/to/apr/install >>> + --with-apr-util=/path/to/apr-util/install >>> + >> >> First of all, are these options to svn's configure or to serf's >> configure? >> > > Serf requires them, but in this case, the Subversion build is meant. > >> In either case, I don't understand why they would be required. apr* are >> mandatory dependencies, and the --with-apr argument should only serve to >> tell configure where the APR installation it should use use, i.e., to >> skip looking for apr in the standard locations (/usr, /usr/local, etc). >> Can you explain? > > That would be overambitious! :) :) :) I simply thought that because serf > needs those switches in it's own compile, I try that, and I got lucky. > > However, here is what happens for me: > > ./configure --enable-maintainer-mode --with-serf=/usr/local/serf > > Error message: > > checking for inttypes.h... yes > checking for stdint.h... yes > checking for unistd.h... yes > configure: serf library configuration via prefix > checking serf.h usability... yes > checking serf.h presence... yes > checking for serf.h... yes > checking for serf_context_create in -lserf-1... no > configure: serf library configuration via pkg-config > checking for serf-2 library... no > checking for serf-1 library... no > checking was serf enabled... no > > An appropriate version of serf could not be found, so libsvn_ra_serf > will not be built. If you want to build libsvn_ra_serf, please > install serf 1.2.0 or newer. > > configure: error: Serf was explicitly enabled but an appropriate version > was not found.
Is it just that you need to build/install serf? % cd serf % ./serfmake --prefix=/usr/local/serf build check install (for the 'install' part you need write permission on /usr/local/serf) Or is there another point here that I'm missing..
