Re: strawberry perl subversion bindings

Hi,

Is there a specific reason you want to build svk?
I am curious because as far as I know SVK development was stopped last year due to its dependancy on SVN repository structure.

Octavian

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "umage" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, November 01, 2010 11:15 AM
Subject: strawberry perl subversion bindings


> Hi, I'm attempting to build SVK using latest strawberry perl. It has an
> external dependency on subversion perl bindings, and I'm encountering
> issues.
> 
> After hours of trying, I was unable to get a working installation - the
> strawberry perl site does not seem to provide source code, and the
> binary bundles do not provide perl headers/libs required to build perl
> bindings. The only documentation on the site points to an outdated svk
> wiki page which suggests using pre-built bindings from
> subversion.tigris.org. But the subversion project stopped providing
> bindings after being acquired and migrated to apache. They do link to
> third-party sites, but the only one that provides bindings does so for a
> single visual studio activeperl build, which has compatibility issues
> with strawberry perl (judging from all the test errors I get).
> 
> Strawberry perl's cpan also attempts to build its own bindigs by trying
> to install Alien-SVN, however it fails because 1) it tries to run a .sh
> script and a configure script, 2) it's not standalone and still requires
> a lot of prerequisite crap, 3) refuses to build against sqlite and 4)
> even if it did, there's still no perl headers/libs to build against.
> 
> So I'm asking - could strawberry perl provide these bindings for every
> strawberry perl release, either bundled, or as a separate install?
>