January 20, 2004
DarwinPorts and Subversion
After Ted and Thom ignited my curiosity, I decided to try and build Subversion on my laptop. While DarwinPorts isn't as slick as Fink, installing it was easy enough. Typing sudo port install subversion brought me no joy however, complaining in usual autotools gibberish about some missing libtool. After hunting through the build directories, apr-util seemed to be the culprit, and I patched ~/darwinports/dports/devel/apr-util/work/httpd-2.0.48/srclib/apr-util/build/rules.mk manually by replacing the faulty apr_builddir variable by ~/darwinports/dports/devel/apr/work/httpd-2.0.48/srclib/apr, which seemed to do the trick. I guess the faulty path (which was somewhere along the lines of /usr/local/share blabla) should be automagically adjusted by the port scripts, but unfortunately, that didn't seem to be the case.