[Issue 661] New - Build instructions for Mac are now out of date. Enclosed, suggested changes

http://rapidsvn.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=661
                 Issue #|661
                 Summary|Build instructions for Mac are now out of date. Enclos
                        |ed, suggested changes
               Component|rapidsvn
                 Version|0.10
                Platform|Macintosh
              OS/Version|Mac OS X
                     URL|
                  Status|NEW
       Status whiteboard|
                Keywords|
              Resolution|
              Issue type|ENHANCEMENT
                Priority|P3
            Subcomponent|docs
             Assigned to|issues@rapidsvn
             Reported by|rachel_greenham






------- Additional comments from [email protected] Wed Jul 22 09:27:49 -0700 2009 -------
The build instructions in the INSTALL file for Mac OS X are out of date and do
not work with 0.10 against Subversion 1.6+.

In point of fact, the main problem is with building Subversion itself with BDB
support. --with-berkeley-db=PATH enables APR to find it but the configure script
later fails with an "Invalid syntax" error; supplying --with-berkely-db in a
format as described in subversion's own INSTALL file causes APR to not even find
BDB in the first place. Catch 22. :-)

As the current 0.10 release for Macs (however its built) is PPC only, and I had
been having problems with earlier such builds, I decided to sort out an Intel
build for myself. The result is some changes to the 0.10 INSTALL file which, if
simply followed at least on an Intel/Leopard system (the most common?) results
in a successful RapidSVN.app build which even appears to work. :-)

The diff from the 0.10 INSTALL file is attached (in a moment), as is the
resulting .dmg of a Universal build of RapidSVN.app built against Subversion
1.6.2. I'd be interested to know if they do work on Panther/Tiger and with PPC,
as I can only test Intel/Leopard. But this is probably by far the most common case.

For my own purposes I earlier built a version with only Intel support (ie: not
Universal) with minimum macosx version of 10.5 and against Subversion 1.6.3.
That too worked fine, but I brought it back to Universal/OSX 10.3+/svn1.6.2 as
per existing expectations.

The main caveat, of course, is that BDB support is not enabled. But I believe
for the vastly most common usage scenario (Intel Mac running Leopard, using FSFS
for client checkouts), this is more appropriate than what's currently available. :-)

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