[Ffmpeg-devel] Problem building from snapshots

[Michel Bardiaux]

Diego Biurrun wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 05:28:13PM +0200, Michel Bardiaux wrote:
>> Diego Biurrun wrote:
>> [snip]
>>>>> test $svn_revision || svn_revision=`cd "$1" && grep revision 
>>>>> .svn/entries |
>>>>> \
>>>>>                                   cut -d '"' -f2 2> /dev/null`
>>>> The above tries to guess revision from existing svn metadata. But in 
>>>> case the client used does not leave metadata similar to the Linux 
>>>> client
>>> The problem is that this works only on pre-1.4 Subversion clients as the
>>> metadata was restructured with version 1.4.
>>>
>> Restructured in a way that makes a similar hack impossible?
> 
> No, somebody that understands the new format needs to come up with an
> equivalent hack for it.
> 

I didnt really understand the old format either when I coughed up the 
hack, I just did a find-exec-grep. I dont have a machine with 1.4, but I 
will try installing svn from source this WE.

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