Building 1.8.19 from source tarball

[Nathan Hartman]

Hi all,

I'm planning to update a Subversion server from 1.8.11 to 1.8.19.

I'm building from the source tarball in order to run the test suites
of svn and its dependencies.

The get-deps.sh script that comes with the source tarball is fetching
apr-1.4.6 and apr-util-1.5.1. There are newer versions available,
namely apr-1.6.3 and apr-util-1.6.1.

Is it better to use the newer versions or the ones called for in the
get-deps.sh script?

Thanks,
Nathan Hartman

[Stefan Sperling]

Post by Nathan Hartman
Hi all,
I'm planning to update a Subversion server from 1.8.11 to 1.8.19.
I'm building from the source tarball in order to run the test suites
of svn and its dependencies.
The get-deps.sh script that comes with the source tarball is fetching
apr-1.4.6 and apr-util-1.5.1. There are newer versions available,
namely apr-1.6.3 and apr-util-1.6.1.
Is it better to use the newer versions or the ones called for in the
get-deps.sh script?
Thanks,
Nathan Hartman

You should be able to use current APR releases without issues.

[Daniel Shahaf]

Post by Stefan Sperling

Post by Nathan Hartman
The get-deps.sh script that comes with the source tarball is fetching
apr-1.4.6 and apr-util-1.5.1. There are newer versions available,
namely apr-1.6.3 and apr-util-1.6.1.

You should be able to use current APR releases without issues.

We don't update the get-deps.sh recommended version whenever APR makes
a release; we only update that in the run-up to a 1.x.0 release and when
upstream APR has a high-severity bug. Consequently, it's common that
even on the day a Subversion release is made, its get-deps.sh wouldn't point to
the latest APR version, but to whichever was latest at the time of the preceding 1.x.0.