Problems in Subversion out-of-source-tree build

["Daniel Richard G." <sk...@iskunk.org>]

I am building Subversion 1.3.0 off of a read-only NFS mount. Three problems
arose, all minor:

1. The files in the tarball lack read and/or execute permissions for
   "other" users (as if created with umask 027).

2. subversion-1.3.0/ac-helpers/config.{guess,sub} have permissions of 754,
   for some odd reason.

3. My build framework specifies a symlinked directory for $(top_srcdir), 
   which works fine most of the time. Subversion, however, seems a bit 
   touchy about it when the "revision-install" target is run:

----(begin build log excerpt)----
/mnt/freeport/src/subversion/current/ac-helpers/install-sh -c -d /tmp/freeport30097.tmp/mnt/freeport/arch/linux32/info
subversion/svnversion/svnversion /mnt/freeport/src/subversion/current /repos/svn/trunk > /tmp/freeport30097.tmp/mnt/freeport/arch/linux32/include/subversion-1/svn-revision.txt
'/mnt/freeport/src/subversion/current' not versioned, and not exported
make: *** [revision-install] Error 1
----(end build log excerpt)----

   (In this instance, .../current is a symlink to the unpacked Subversion 
   source tarball.)

   This can be fixed in Makefile.in: Rather than passing $(top_srcdir) 
   directly to svnversion, pass in `cd $(top_srcdir) && /bin/pwd`, which 
   will report the actual (non-symlink) directory of the source tree. I've 
   attached a (trivial) patch to this end.


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--Daniel


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