Re: Subversion 1.2.3 released.

Rainer Sokoll wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 26, 2005 at 11:36:31PM +0100, Max Bowsher wrote:
>> [email protected] wrote:
>>> Rainer Sokoll <[email protected]> writes:
>>>> On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 01:29:01PM -0700, Ben Reser wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Subversion 1.2.3 is ready and available from:
>>>>
>>>> Thanks to all developers.
>>>> A minor issue: In the Makefile generated by configure, still DESTDIR is
>>>> undefined, so at least me had to add a "DESTDIR = /"
>>>
>>> That seems bad.
>>>
>>> I've CC'd this to dev@ so the release manager can take a look.
>>
>> No bug here.
>>
>> Rainer, it is perfectly normal and expected for DESTDIR to be undefined,
>> and you should not define it to anything unless you are installing to a
>> sandbox installation area in order to produce a package.
>
> Here:
> ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/subversion-1.2.3 \
> --with-apache=/usr/local/src/httpd-2.0.54 --without-berkeley-db \
> --with-apr=/usr/local/httpd-2.0.54/bin/apr-config \
> --with-apr-util=/usr/local/httpd-2.0.54/bin/apu-config
>
> A make ends up in:
> libtool: link: only absolute run-paths are allowed
> make: *** [subversion/mod_dav_svn/mod_dav_svn.la] Error 1
>
> With defined DESTDIR, no problem
>
> System: Suse Linux 9.3, autoconf 2.59, automake 1.9.5.

Are you *really* trying to build mod_dav_svn statically linked into the 
apache binary itself, or have you used --with-apache without properly 
understanding the consequences? Most people should be using --with-apxs, 
unless they have extremely special needs.

In any case, defining DESTDIR merely conceals the fact that something is 
wrong with your build, it is not a proper solution.

Max.