Running Subversion on AIX :(

["Hensley, Richard" <Ri...@McKesson.com>]

I tried for quite a while to get Subversion running on AIX, and in the
end, I simply could not get BerkleyDB-4.0.14 or BerkleyDB-4.1.25 to
operate correctly. This included installing the outside of Subversion
and trying to run the tests to tclsh. I used up all the hints on the
sleepcat.com web site. :(

I went so far as to try to use the gcc 3.2.1 compiler for AIX instead of
the IBM xLC compiler, but the two sets of include files conflicted. In
all, it turned into quite an ordeal that failed. :(

So, as a stop gap measure until I have more time to devote, I brought up
a Linux server for my repository. Not what I originally wanted, but it
will work for the short term. This, by the way, was fairly easy. :)

Maybe, I will have time in a couple of months to try AIX again. 

Richard 

Re: bdb alternatives (Re: Running Subversion on AIX )

[Greg Hudson <gh...@MIT.EDU>]

On Fri, 2003-03-14 at 21:44, Brian Olson wrote:
> I am not an AIX user, but this brings up something I've wondered about for
> a while. Alternate back-ends. Another db? What do we require out of the
> db? Would ndbm or gdbm work? Maybe write something custom tailored to what
> svn wants. I've heard that bdb may be a performance bottleneck; custom
> code might be faster.

I am interested in writing a custom back end, but after 1.0 comes out. 
Other people are interested in SQL back ends, and Glenn Thomas is
working on virtualizing the filesystem code so that other back ends are
possible.

But for 1.0, we're mainly focused on the BDB back end.  I don't think
any other free key-value database could be plugged in where BDB sits (it
needs arbitrary-length keys and values and also transaction support),
and a new back end is a lot of work.


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bdb alternatives (Re: Running Subversion on AIX )

[Brian Olson <ic...@bolson.org>]

I am not an AIX user, but this brings up something I've wondered about for
a while. Alternate back-ends. Another db? What do we require out of the
db? Would ndbm or gdbm work? Maybe write something custom tailored to what
svn wants. I've heard that bdb may be a performance bottleneck; custom
code might be faster.

Brian Olson
http://bolson.org/

On Fri, 14 Mar 2003, Hensley, Richard wrote:

> I tried for quite a while to get Subversion running on AIX, and in the
> end, I simply could not get BerkleyDB-4.0.14 or BerkleyDB-4.1.25 to
> operate correctly. This included installing the outside of Subversion
> and trying to run the tests to tclsh. I used up all the hints on the
> sleepcat.com web site. :(


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