[PATCH] Improve bootstrap guideance

[Jack Repenning <jr...@collab.net>]

INSTALL encourages a "dive in and do it" approach to bootstrapping, and
this mostly works.  I found, however, that I lost a lot of time learning
the two subtlties noted below.  Yes, if I'd actually *read* all of
INSTALL, I'd have known these things.  But, OK, I didn't; all I read
was:

      On Unix systems, the './configure' script will tell you if you are
      missing the correct version of any of the required libraries or
      tools, so if you are in a real hurry to get building, you can skip
      straight to section II.  

I don't think I'm so very unusual in this!

The two tricks:
- even though it's configure telling you that you're missing stuff, once
you suck it down from cvs you have to back up to autogen.sh.

- if you're missing apr, you're almost certain to be missing apr-util as
well.  Why not fetch 'em both at once?

-===-
DOROTHY:  Follow the Yellow Brick Road?  Follow the Yellow Brick . . .?
Well now, which way do we go?
SCARECROW:  Pardon me.  That way is very nice.  
DOROTHY:  Who said that?  Don't be silly, Toto.  Scarecrows don't talk.
SCARECROW:  It's pleasant down that way, too.
DOROTHY:  That's funny.  Wasn't he pointing the other way?
SCARECROW:  Of course, people do go both ways! 

Jack Repenning
CollabNet, Inc.
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c: 408.835.8090


Log:

Improve the helpful hints for those missing apr*.

* build/ac-macros/aprutil.m4
  (SVN_DOWNLOAD_APRUTIL): note that autogen.sh needs to be rerun 
  if you download apr-util.

* build/ac-macros/apr.m4
  (SVN_DOWNLOAD_APR): note that autogen.sh needs to be rerun 
  if you download apr; note that you may need apr-util as well.

Index: build/ac-macros/aprutil.m4
===================================================================
--- build/ac-macros/aprutil.m4  (revision 5945)
+++ build/ac-macros/aprutil.m4  (working copy)
@@ -98,7 +98,8 @@
   echo ""
   echo "   cvs -d :pserver:anoncvs@cvs.apache.org:/home/cvspublic co
apr-util"
   echo ""
-  echo "Run that right here in the top-level of the Subversion tree."
+  echo "Run that right here in the top level of the Subversion tree,"
+  echo "then run autogen.sh again."
   echo ""
   AC_MSG_ERROR([no suitable APRUTIL found])
 ])
Index: build/ac-macros/apr.m4
===================================================================
--- build/ac-macros/apr.m4      (revision 5945)
+++ build/ac-macros/apr.m4      (working copy)
@@ -101,7 +101,15 @@
   echo ""
   echo "   cvs -d :pserver:anoncvs@cvs.apache.org:/home/cvspublic co
apr"
   echo ""
-  echo "Run that right here in the top-level of the Subversion tree."
+  echo "Run that right here in the top level of the Subversion tree,"
+  echo "then run autogen.sh again."
   echo ""
+  echo "Whichever of the above you do, you probably need to do"
+  echo "something similar for apr-util, either providing both"
+  echo "--with-apr and --with-apr-util to 'configure', or"
+  echo "getting both from CVS with:"
+  echo ""
+  echo "   cvs -d :pserver:anoncvs@cvs.apache.org:/home/cvspublic co
apr apr-util"
+  echo ""
   AC_MSG_ERROR([no suitable apr found])
 ])


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