Ports: devel/svn dies at devel/apr

Bill Fenner fenner at research.att.com
Sun Oct 24 09:30:56 PDT 2004


> I think it (ports version) should works fine.

> On Sat, Oct 23, 2004 at 09:43:34PM -0400, Garance A Drosihn wrote:
> > That web page mentions:
> > 
> >    2. Apply the patch appended to this email (which is r10438
> >       of subversion trunk, and is expected to be present in
> >       1.1.0rc3 and later).

My big concern is a few lines up in the page:

>>That said, if you are willing to accept that svn-1.x+apr-1.x will be ABI 
>>incompatible with 'normal' svn-1.x, we do try to make it work.

I don't know what the implications of "ABI incompatible" are, but it
sounds like it's possible that a port upgrade from 1.0.8+apr0.9 to
1.1.1+apr-1.0 will break someone's system.

  Bill


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