[SVN-3997] configure requires explicit --with-expat on FreeBSD

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Trivial
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: trunk
• Fix Version/s: 1.10-consider
• Component/s: compile
• Labels: bite-sized

Environment

FreeBSD

• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Daniel Shahaf
• Created: 26/Aug/11 08:19
• Updated: 19/Feb/15 14:52

Description

Building Subversion 1.7.x on FreeBSD currently requires a configure flag:

--with-expat=/usr/local/include:/usr/local/lib:expat

As that is the default location of expat on that platform, it would be nice if
configure detected it automatically.