Re: Quest re: Subversion on SLES 11.0

2009-08-29 Thread Jack Woehr
Jack Woehr wrote: If you really feel compelled to learn more, redirect, capture and read the output of the build. You'll get to do this anyway. If ports isn't already ported to your platform, porting it will give you a set of Makefiles that /almost/ work for Linux on z. It's really faster to

Re: Quest re: Subversion on SLES 11.0

2009-08-28 Thread Michael Simms
Yes, 1.6 is the version was trying to install. From: Shockley, Gerard C gsh...@bu.edu To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Sent: Thursday, August 27, 2009 4:03:59 PM Subject: Re: Quest re: Subversion on SLES 11.0 What version are you attempting to install. 1.6

Re: Quest re: Subversion on SLES 11.0

2009-08-28 Thread Michael Simms
Thanks Samir, for your input. I appreciate any help I can get. Regards, Michael From: Samir Reddahi samir.redd...@securex.be To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Sent: Friday, August 28, 2009 10:04:24 AM Subject: Re: Quest re: Subversion on SLES 11.0 I've recently

Re: Quest re: Subversion on SLES 11.0

2009-08-28 Thread Jack Woehr
Michael -- 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 .. etc. Your experience is normal if you build Subversion by hand. No one actually does this in

Re: Quest re: Subversion on SLES 11.0

2009-08-28 Thread Jack Woehr
Jack Woehr wrote: Michael -- 1. I issue './configure...' to configure Subversion. Oops forgot the makefile. Here it is. You are to be commended. One never understands an open source system until one builds it from scratch, every component, every tool. Go get 'em!! # $OpenBSD:

Re: Quest re: Subversion on SLES 11.0

2009-08-28 Thread Mark Post
On 8/28/2009 at 4:05 PM, Jack Woehr j...@well.com wrote: -snip- No one actually does this in the real open source Unix world. I do. It's not all that hard, once you accept the idea that you're now a Linux developer, not a Linux user. That means installing a lot of packages you might not

Re: Quest re: Subversion on SLES 11.0

2009-08-28 Thread Jack Woehr
Mark Post wrote: On 8/28/2009 at 4:05 PM, Jack Woehr j...@well.com wrote: No one actually does this in the real open source Unix world. I do. It's not all that hard, once you accept the idea that you're now a Linux developer, not a Linux user. That means installing a lot of packages

Quest re: Subversion on SLES 11.0

2009-08-27 Thread Michael Simms
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,

Re: Quest re: Subversion on SLES 11.0

2009-08-27 Thread Adam Thornton
On Aug 27, 2009, at 12:27 PM, Michael Simms wrote: I have been trying to install a package called Subversion. Since I could not find a binary for SuSE SLES 11 on zVM, It was on the SDK in SLES 10. Maybe it's there? Adam

Re: Quest re: Subversion on SLES 11.0

2009-08-27 Thread Richard Troth
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

Re: Quest re: Subversion on SLES 11.0

2009-08-27 Thread Michael Simms
I'll take a look. Thanks Adam. From: Adam Thornton athorn...@sinenomine.net To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Sent: Thursday, August 27, 2009 1:51:18 PM Subject: Re: Quest re: Subversion on SLES 11.0 On Aug 27, 2009, at 12:27 PM, Michael Simms wrote: I have been

Re: Quest re: Subversion on SLES 11.0

2009-08-27 Thread Michael Simms
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

Re: Quest re: Subversion on SLES 11.0

2009-08-27 Thread Adam Thornton
On Aug 27, 2009, at 1:35 PM, Richard Troth wrote: 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,