Thanks for your response and words of encouragement. I'll follow the advice.
Regards, Michael ________________________________ From: Richard Troth <vmcow...@gmail.com> To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Sent: Thursday, August 27, 2009 2:35:34 PM Subject: Re: Quest re: Subversion on SLES 11.0 What Adam suggests may be all you need. If you install a "software development kit" then the requisite libraries for a bazillion things are automagically present. I am a huge proponent of build-it-yourself. That is the biggest reason why we have open source: you can build it if you need to. It is only fair that the better packages will judiciously require other things. Why should they re-invent some wheel? Better that they focus on their own thing. I recently tried to build Subversion and ran into the same pain you did. I have not had opportunity to return to the SVN build. (Also, my interest was initially work related and we have enough RPMs at the office from those distributors that I really don't HAVE to have my own build ... yet.) The subject line caught my attention because we recently started using Subversion and it brings back fond memories of GOOD version control with attribution and all that. (Used CVS about five years ago, which in its day was slick stuff.) So nice to have flexibility and still have an audit trail and/or roll-back. Please don't lose heart about building it yourself. If you can find an RPM, and you trust it, great! But if you can't find pre-built packages or you don't trust the "builder", or if you need customization or require some up-to-date release, building your own is the way to go. If you are committed to in-house compilation, then you can justify having and maintaining a suite of requisite packages and libraries so that next time something like SVN comes along it will "just make" and life will be beautiful. -- R; <>< On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 13:27, Michael Simms<simmsmichael1...@yahoo.com> wrote: > I have been trying to install a package called Subversion. Since I could not > find a binary for SuSE SLES 11 on zVM, I am attempting to compile it from > scratch by doing a './configure....' and then 'make'. Wow, what a mess. I > must be missing some trick or knowledge. Has anybody done this? And, if so, > would you have any advice for all the 'pre-installed software package > requisites' that is required? By this I mean as an example the following > scenario: > > 1. I issue './configure...' to configure Subversion. > './configure...' stops and tell me that the configure/make for 'zlib' > had errors. > I 'cd' to the zlib directory and issue a ./configure. Seems good. > I do a make. It seems good as well. > 2. So we are back at the './configure...' for Subversion. > Subversion stops, telling me that 'Serf' has erred on it's > './configure'. > 'Serf' is missing an 'APR' type package. I down load and untar it. > I 'cd' to this APR package lib. > I issue ./configure/make and for this package, it seems to > have gone well. > So we are now back at the 'Serf' ./configure/make. > I do the ./configure manually. Looks good. > I do the 'make'. It seems good. > 3. Once again, we are back at the Subversion level. I continue on with the > './configure' > All seems well. > 4. Let's say for arguments sake I have completed the './configure...' without > too many errors, at least none that are critical (I think). > Now I key in the 'make'. Package missing. > I download the package and untar it. > I 'cd' to it's directory. I do the './configure'. Errors. > Needs 'x-package-of-some-sort'. I download it. > Go thru the procedures shown above, you know, the > configure/make process. > 5. I finally get back to the Subversion 'make' process again. > We begin where it erred off before. > etc, > etc, > etc, > etc, > etc, > etc. > > Do you get my drift? It just seems like I'm spinning my wheels. I've already > installed all that the Subversion documents told me before I even began, and > yet, there are still many, many more packages that I find out about while > going through the ./configure...' and build processes, since as I established > before, there are no binaries that I can find for Subversion, on SuSE SLES11, > on zSeries. > I've got to be doing something wrong, yes? > HELP!!!! :-) > I don't really know whether I am on the correct path and I just need to have > patience and see it through, or?Any help or guidance would be so appreciated. > Regards, > Michael > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit > http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
