Comments on Nuby Ruby / Rails Tales: Interesting svn "gotcha"...

It did, in fact, help someone else out. Thank you...

2010-04-16T17:54:36.569-07:00

It did, in fact, help someone else out. Thank you _so much_ for posting the solution.

@matt: Thanks for the feedback; hopefully it will...

2010-04-13T06:30:19.028-07:00

@matt:
Thanks for the feedback; hopefully it will help someone else with the problem. As for me, I've moved on. I'm now using git and Heroku. Great combination with drop-dead easy deployment. And I've moved from Aptana to RubyMine: much better, IMO.

I ran into that too. Tried googling for an answer ...

2010-04-13T04:22:28.756-07:00

I ran into that too. Tried googling for an answer but came up with nothing. Then I read the error properly and realized it was a simple path error. i.e. it can't find "build/gen-build.py" because it's not in your svn source directory, it's in "apr/build/gen-build.py" instead.

The simple solution is to move to the apr directory first and then run the command:
cd apr
./buildconf

Don't know if you're interested in giving it another try, but I thought I'd pass this on anyway. I totally agree that building subversion is far more trouble than it needs to be.