[BRLTTY] brltty configure script requires subversion

William Hubbs w.d.hubbs at gmail.com
Thu Mar 31 15:31:08 EDT 2011


On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 02:59:19PM -0400, Dave Mielke wrote:
> [quoted lines by William Hubbs on 2011/03/31 at 13:35 -0500]
> 
> >I don't really know the purpose of the "revision" script, so I am asking
> >here why we have it, and if there is a way a patch could be written for
> >it so that it doesn't require the presence of subversion?
> 
> The purpose is to get brltty's build revision number. Looking at it, it may be 
> better to move this from configure to autogen. Would that be okay?

Well, that's a possibility.

I was thinking more along the lines of making the "revision" script able
to cope with subversion not existing though. Is there a way that could
be done?

William

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