[Box Backup] Working instructions to compile Box Backup Trunk under Cygwin

Chris Wilson boxbackup at boxbackup.org
Tue Apr 7 22:15:25 BST 2009


Hi Achim,

Sorry for the delay in replying, I was travelling and somehow managed to 
miss your message.

On Mon, 30 Mar 2009, Achim wrote:

>>>> I have always installed Cygwin using the default "Unix line ending" 
>>>> configuration. I wonder if you did the same? If not, perhaps that is 
>>>> the cause of the problems you experienced?
>>>
>>> I also install with the default "Unix/binary (recommended)" setting, 
>>> so that unlikely to be the source.
>>
>> What subversion client did you use to check out the source?
>
> $ svn --version
> svn, version 1.2.3 (r15833)
>   compiled Aug 19 2005, 23:10:39
>
> Copyright (C) 2000-2005 CollabNet.
> Subversion is open source software, see http://subversion.tigris.org/
> This product includes software developed by CollabNet
> (http://www.Collab.Net/).
>
> The following repository access (RA) modules are available:
>
> * ra_dav : Module for accessing a repository via WebDAV (DeltaV) protocol.
>  - handles 'http' scheme
>  - handles 'https' scheme
> * ra_svn : Module for accessing a repository using the svn network
> protocol.
>  - handles 'svn' scheme
> * ra_local : Module for accessing a repository on local disk.
>  - handles 'file' scheme
>
> downloaded from [1] as suggested by the Box Backup Wiki instructions [2].
> Suprisingly the tgz archive for 0.11rc2 had no such problems, not sure
> whether this is an effect of Tar and Gzip doing the conversion
> automagically?
>
> [1]
> <http://subversion.tigris.org/files/documents/15/25364/svn-1.2.3-setup.exe>

No, I think it more likely that the Windows Subversion client is doing 
some kind of conversion that Cygwin doesn't like. Perhaps we should 
recommend using the Cygwin subversion client instead.

Cheers, Chris.
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