On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 6:55 PM, Daniel Shahaf <d...@daniel.shahaf.name> wrote: > Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote on Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 01:31:11 -0400: >> On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 7:52 AM, Philip Martin <phi...@apache.org> wrote: >> > I'm happy to announce the release of Apache Subversion 1.7.6. >> > Please choose the mirror closest to you by visiting: >> > >> > http://subversion.apache.org/download/#recommended-release >> >> Cool. I'm poking at getting a 1.7.6 SRPM set up for it. I am noticing an >> issue. >> > > In the future you may consider testing the packaging when the tarballs > are posted for developer testing, rather than only after their public > release. (at which point they can no longer be pulled)
Sorry, Daniel: I was busy on one contract until July 31 and just started a new one Monday. >> * Make mod_dontdothat.so installable from the Makefile. The easiest >> way to do it is to move it to from "tools" to "subversion", parallel >> to subverson/mod_dav_svn, and as a loadable httpd module, it requires >> special attention. >> >> * Make the other Subversion tools installable. It should be >> straightforward to make the other contents of the "tools" directory >> compiled and instlalled into the 'toolsdir', typically >> /usr/local/bin/svn-tools, defined in the Makefile.in. It's not >> currently used in subverson-1.7.x, but is used in the trunk for the >> "svnmucc" tools. > > Are you aware of 'make install-tools'? I looked in the Makefile and didn't see it, unlike 'install-man", "install-swig-rb", etc. But sure enough, it works. Gotta love sophisticated and impliciit components of Makefiles. Thanks for the pointer! Is there some reason it's not included in the default "install" list of targets? > If you want to add targets to install individual tools, too, I imagine > we would welcome a patch for this (but I won't have time to handle it > myself). See the 1.7.5->1.7.6 diff for most of the files you'll need to > touch (makefile.ezt and co). That's potentially useful, but doens't fix the problem where the built components are in "tools" are
