Re: Subversion in backports
Stuart Rowan wrote:
> Reinhard Tartler wrote, on 17/03/10 17:38:
>> On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 18:11:39 (CET), Freddy Spierenburg wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Michael and Reinhard,
>>>
>>> On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 02:36:45PM +0100, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
>>>> AFAIR backporting subversion was rather straight forward to do.
>>>
>>> Rather straight forward was not really the case, but I have
>>> something that works for me.
>>>
>>> I had to disable Java-support (javahl), since that brought me
>>> into a dependency hell. The dependency on gcj-jdk needed me to
>>> backport the gcc4.4 compiler too and I didn't want to go there.
>>
>> perhaps backports.org admin can comment on how to solve that?
>>
>> dropping javahl support does not seem an option to me, as this would
>> most likely break the subclipse plugin (subversion support for eclipse).
>> I'd rather stay on the older version than breaking that, as our site
>> uses eclipse quite a lot.
>>
> subclipse can use svnkit instead. This is preferable for many people as
> svnkit is pure Java code.
>
> That said, I'm surprised that one can't switch to building against the
> various gcj packages that ship with Lenny ... or is gcj in Lenny still
> sufficiently borked compared to sun-java6-jdk that it is a lost cause?
Don't know about calling it a lost cause, but yes, gcj-jdk can't even
run the test suite of Subversion's javahl bindings without errors.
An obvious workaround is to build-depend on OpenJDK, which is in lenny
and does not suffer from that problem.
I will submit an updated package later today.
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Michael Diers, elego Software Solutions GmbH, http://www.elego.de
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