Brian Neal wrote on Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 14:22:52 -0500: > I probably not would have been able to write the initial patch without > it. Once I had all the pre-requisite build tools installed in Ubuntu,
apt-get build-dep subversion ? > all I had to do was type "make" and watch it go to town. It was > amazing. The only thing that kind of tripped me up was that I am using > Ubuntu 10.04, which uses svn 1.6 to checkout the working copy of svn. > So at the end, when it does a svnversion I got some strange error > about my working copy being too old. But after googling I convinced > myself I could ignore this error. So yes, thank for that Makefile, I've already seen a fix fly by on commits@ for this :) > it's very useful in lowering the barrier to contributing. > > Best regards, > BN