Re: Building from source

On Thu, 31 Dec 2015, Kevin W. Wall wrote:

> On Thu, Dec 31, 2015 at 2:43 PM, David Sims <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> >   Sorry for the top post, but just doing it for consistency....
> >
> >   Yes... I've seen all that... But my question is this:
> >
> > what --revision nnn is equal to release 2.1.8 ??
> >
> > If I do:
> >
> > svn checkout --revision 2.1.8 http://svn.code.sf.net/p/ipcop/svn/ipcop/trunk
> >
> > I get "svn: E205000: Syntax error in revision argument '2.1.8'"
> >
> > If I use a web browser to look at http://svn.code.sf.net/p/ipcop/svn/ipcop
> > I see a tags directory that will take me to (when I click on
> > release-2.1.8)
>
> Dave,
>
> You ordinarily want to checkout a specific release by it's tag name.
> For release 2.1.8, for IPCop, this would be:
>
>   svn checkout http://svn.code.sf.net/p/ipcop/svn/ipcop/tags/release-2.1.8/
>
> I've tried it and that works, and as you noted, the last line of output from
> this 'svn checkout' notes that you have checked out revision 8017.
>
> So to get release 2.1.7, you would just use:
>   svn checkout http://svn.code.sf.net/p/ipcop/svn/ipcop/tags/release-2.1.7/
>
> (Sorry; if you are using something like TortoiseSVN or some other SVN GUI,
> you're on your own.)
>

Hi,

  Thanks, that seems to work.... Would it be a good idea to add this bit
of instruction to the page

<http://sourceforge.net/p/ipcop/wiki/HowTo%20build/>

for others??

DPS

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