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List:       subversion-issues
Subject:    INSTALL Documentation
From:       Dave Jarvis <djarvis () invoqsystems ! com>
Date:       2003-04-29 17:05:37
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Hi,

Absolutely wonderful job on the INSTALL documentation.  If I may make 
two minor suggestions ...

1) Before this section:

       If you want Subversion to build the APR libraries from source
       code as part of the Subversion build process, you can put their
       source code into the "./apr" and "./apr-util" directories. The
       Subversion tarball comes with copies of the libraries' source
       code stored in these subdirectories which you could copy or link
       to.

I would include a note which reads along the lines of:

       NOTE: Before you can configure Subversion you must at least
       configure the Apache source in order to create the apr-util
       configuration script.  For example:

           $ cd /usr/local/src/apache2
           $ ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/apache
           $ cd /usr/local/src/subversion

You will note that unless this step is performed, the configure script 
for Subversion will fail when trying to find apr-util on a FRESH Apache 
tarball (>= 2.0.45).

2) Please provide an example of what this means:

       If you already have another version of Berkeley DB installed and
       don't want to downgrade, you can unpack the Berkeley DB 4.0.14
       distribution into a subdir named `db' in the top-level of the
       Subversion source tree.  Then Subversion will ignore the system
       DB and use the one it found in its own source tree.

For example, if I've downloaded Subversion into:

       /usr/local/src

Does this mean (which to me isn't the top level of the "source", but 
rather the top level of the application):

       /usr/local/src/subversion/db

Or (which, to me, is the top level of the "source", but doesn't work):

       /usr/local/src/subversion/subversion/db

It's good that you provide an alternate way to specify the source 
location of the DB via the configuration script command line.

Dave


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