[Cassandra Wiki] Update of "InstallThrift" by jeremyhanna

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- Thrift expects to make an official release so that distributors can package it up nicely Real Soon Now.  In the meantime, installing thrift is a bit of a bitch.  We are sorry about that, but we don't know of a better way to support a vast number of clients mostly automagically.
+ [[http://incubator.apache.org/thrift] | Thrift] expects to make an official release so that distributors can package it up nicely Real Soon Now.  In the meantime, installing thrift is a bit of a bitch.  We are sorry about that, but we don't know of a better way to support a vast number of clients mostly automagically.
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+ Important note: you need to install the svn revision of thrift that matches the revision that your version of Cassandra uses. This can be found in the <Cassandra Home>/lib directory - e.g. `libthrift-917130.jar` means that version of Cassandra uses svn revision 917130 of thrift.
  
   1. `aptitude install libboost-dev python-dev autoconf automake pkg-config make libtool flex bison build-essential` (or the equivalent on your system) (assumes you are interested in building for python; omit python-dev otherwise)
-  1. Grab the thrift source: `svn co http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/thrift/trunk thrift-trunk`
+  1. Grab the thrift source with the revision that your version of Cassandra uses: e.g. `svn co -r 917130 http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/thrift/trunk thrift`
-  1. `cd thrift-trunk`
+  1. `cd thrift`
   1. `./bootstrap.sh`
   1. `./configure` (you may need to add `--without-ruby` or `--without-csharp` or any other targets that are giving you trouble)
   1. `make`