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[Bogdan Cristea <cristeab@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Friday 26 December 2008 05:15:44 Philipp Thomas wrote:
> On Thu, 25 Dec 2008 20:28:39 +0200, you wrote:
> > I have noticed that there is no static library libneon.a in the default
> > openSuSE 11.1 distribution. Compiling neon from sources as static library
> > generates both libneon.a and libneon.la
>
> The static version isn't needed, it's just an error/bug in the
> subversion source configuration. Had you unpacked a recent openSUSE
> .src.rpm and looked into subversion.spec you'd have seen that one of
> the patches we apply is subversion-1.5.x-no-neon-la.patch that
> contains:
>
> -            NEON_LIBS=`$neon_config --la-file`
> +            NEON_LIBS=`$neon_config --libs`
>
> So edit build/ac-macros/neon.m4 and make the same change and you
> should be able to compile subversion 1.5.5.
>
> As a general rule: before complaining that openSUSE lacks something
> for compiling a package that we also provide, please look into the
> spec file of our .src.rpm. Chances are rather good that our source
> RPMs contain patches that fix the problem.
>
> Philipp

    Actually openSuSE provides subversion, but usually is not the latest 
release.
    I'll post on the subversion forum this message, see if this could be fixed 
in the next releases of svn.
thanks
-- 
Bogdan
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