On 11/19/05, Per Jansson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Martin Costabel wrote:
>
> > Per Jansson wrote:
> >
> >> After installing latest Tiger and running Fink for
> >> apache2 and subversion I have been fighting with a non-fink bug for
> >> quite a while.
> >>
> >> The bug was quite well documented, it turned out. So here is is from
> >> the FAQ at subversion
> >
> > []
> >
> >> Currently, the best solution is to rebuild Apache and Subversion from
> >> their respective sources, setting the following environment variable
> >> before running configure for Apache:
> >>
> >> setenv ac_cv_func_poll no
> >> or in Bourne shell syntax, like this:
> >>
> >> ac_cv_func_poll=no; export ac_cv_func_poll
> >
> >
> > Have you had a look at recent versions of Fink's apache2 and apr
> > package descriptions? They have had this fix for over 5 months. If you
> > have problems, you either have an old version installed, or the
> > problem must have a different cause.
> >
> The versions I have installed do indeed look old, but I use Fink
> Commander to do it for me.
> I tried switching to tcsh shell today and run setenv ac_cv_func_poll no
> before compiling apache2, but it did not help.
>

That _absolutely_ won't work.  FInk doesn't use most of your
environment variable settings--deliberately.

> The packages web site has been down today, but it is up now again. And I
> see that there are unstable versions with higher version numbers.
> I guess I will find the commands for installing those somewhere on the
> fink site.
> In what sense are the packages unstable?
>

I use them--they're unstable only in the sense that the maintainer
hasn't moved them to the stable tree, in my opinion.

> Thanks for pointing it out.
>
> Per
>
>
--
Alexander K. Hansen
Fink Documenter
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