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

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