Mark Phippard wrote on Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 08:43:02 -0400: > I thought zlib became mandatory a few releases back? Isn't it used as > part of svndiff1 or something like that? >
Yes, and the servers/clients advertise svndiff1 as part of the protocol greeting; if they don't have zlib but advertise svndiff1 they will get nowhere fast. Alexander: your log message does not say HOW you fix the failure --- i.e., do you fix the error message or make it go away. > > On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 8:39 AM, Alexander Thomas <[email protected]> > wrote: > > All, > > > > AFAIK, Subversion cannot be build without zlib. At present if configured > > using '--without-zlib' or '--with-zlib=no' options, build will fail with > > following error message ... > > [[[ > > Subversion/trunk/libtool: line 4992: cd: no/lib: No such file or > > directory > > libtool: link: cannot determine absolute directory name of `no/lib' > > ]]] > > > > [[[ > > Fixes build failure when configured with '--without-zlib'. > > > > * build/ac-macros/zlib.m4 > > (SVN_LIB_Z): Configure error-outs if executed with '--without-zlib' > > or '--with-zlib=no' options. > > > > Patch by: Alexander Thomas <[email protected]> > > ]]] > > > > > > -Alexander Thomas(AT) > > > > > > -- > Thanks > > Mark Phippard > http://markphip.blogspot.com/
