Newbie's same old question about Cygwin

[Marcos Chaves <mc...@hotmail.com>]

Hi there.

Famous problem: build Subversion on Win32 when MSVC is not available (and 
then use tools like gettext, for example).

I know that I'm not the first one here having problems trying to build 
Subversion with Cygwin. I searched through the users and dev mailing list 
archives and could find solutions to some of the problems that I had, but 
now I'm stuck and I wonder if it is not already clear on these lists that 
this is not the right way to go, since I don't see too much about it lately.

Is there anybody able to build Subversion using a Unix-like environment on 
Win32? (I know, it's a classic newbie question, but I really couldn't find 
the answer.) The INSTALL file just says that "there have been rumors" that 
it could be done with Cygwin.

Thanks for the help.

Marcos

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By the way, here is where I'm stuck right now:

Since apr-util should be patched to understand Berkeley DB 4.2 
(http://subversion.tigris.org/project_faq.html#linux-bdb42-build), I can't 
use a pre-compiled package. When the apr-util build process calls 
"apr-config --srcdir", the given path will break the build (it points to 
/home/max/...). If I try to compile apr so "apr-config --srcdir" would point 
to a real path on my system, the ./configure step stops with:

    Construct Makefile and header files.
    configure: creating ./config.status
    config.status: creating
    .infig.status: error: cannot find input file:

Any ideas? I guess that if I don't find a simpler (cleaner?) solution, my 
next step will be to start patching the generated "configure" file. I don't 
like it but the same approach is used to make apr-util works with Berkeley 
DB 4.2...

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