[R-SIG-Mac] svn location

[Prof Brian Ripley]

A couple more points on this

1) Apple's svn is 1.10.4, Simon's is 1.14.0 so you probably should not 
mix checkouts done with the different versions.

2) Digging amongst the versions available on developer.apple.com, CLT 
11.3.1 contained svn etc, 11.5 did not (but did not remove existing 
tools, and neither did betas of 12).


On 28/08/2020 22:45, Simon Urbanek wrote:
> Carl,
> 
> the one in /usr/bin is just a stub from Apple that re-directs to real svn. Where that one is depends on your installed tools (Xcode/CLT,...), for CLT it is in
> 
> $ ls -lh /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/usr/bin/svn
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 root  admin   321K Jul 13  2019 /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/usr/bin/svn
> 
> And it is a dynamic build so it needs all the dependent libraries (see otool -L). The build I'm providing is single-file so all (non-system) libraries are included in the binary hence it is bigger.
> 
> As to where to put it, I'd probably use /usr/local/bin, but if you don't have access there you can run it from your home or anywhere else.
> 
> Cheers,
> Simon
> 
> 
>> On Aug 29, 2020, at 05:11, Carl Witthoft <carl using witthoft.com> wrote:
>>
>> Well, I put this new svn in /usr/local, then checked around my Catalina system:
>>
>>
>> iMac:~ cgw$ which svn
>> /usr/bin/svn
>> iMac:local cgw$ cd /usr/bin
>> iMac:bin cgw$ ls -l svn
>> -rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  31488 Aug 10 16:55 svn
>> iMac:bin cgw$ cd /usr/local
>> iMac:local cgw$ ls -l svn
>> -rwxr-xr-x@ 1 cgw  wheel  8767792 Aug 25 18:04 svn
>> iMac:local cgw$ what svn
>> svn
>> 	1.14.0 (r1876290)
>>
>> That's a huge difference in file size!  Any idea what the /usr/bin one is?
>>
>> Carl
>>
>> On 8/26/20 1:00 PM, peter dalgaard wrote:
>>> Not dumb.
>>> Simon's usual style is that tarballs are installed at / and things end up under /usr/local, using the procedure outlined at the bottom of
>>> https://mac.r-project.org/libs/
>>> but you should probably check with "tar tvfz" first.
>>> -pd
>>>   
>>>> On 26 Aug 2020, at 18:43 , Carl Witthoft <carl using witthoft.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Dumb question from someone who hasn't done any building in quite a while: recommended director to place the svn executable?
>>>> thanks
>>>> Carl
>>>>
>>>> On 8/26/20 6:00 AM, r-sig-mac-request using r-project.org wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>     1.  svn now available from the tools (Simon Urbanek)
>>>>> ntent-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
>>>>> If you want to build R from the svn repository you need svn (subversion). Xcode 10 has removed svn so it is no loner available from Apple, we are providing a binary (cmopatible with OS X 10.11 and higher) in
>>>>> https://mac.r-project.org/tools/
>>>>> (in "optional tools and libraries" at the bottom), direct link:
>>>>> https://mac.r-project.org/tools/subversion-1.14.0-darwin15.6.tar.gz
>>>>> It is a single-file signed, static build so has no dependencies and can be run from anywhere.


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Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley using stats.ox.ac.uk
Emeritus Professor of Applied Statistics, University of Oxford