[csw-maintainers] apr cannot be compiled any more if apr is installed on the buildfarm

[Philip Brown]

this sort of thing has been known to happen, and it is perfectly
acceptible to ask that older versions of a package be removed for a
fixed timeperiod for recompiling

and to answer your side question: most decently written software does
not have this problem


On Tuesday, May 18, 2010, rupert THURNER <rupert at opencsw.org> wrote:
> apr has a simple recipe to compile. now, as apr is installed on the
> buildfarm as well, an installed older version seems to disturb the
> build of the newer. i am wondering
>
> 1. how other projects, like debian, etc, handle this situation?
>     do they always start with a clean environment to have no interferences?
> 2. if it is just the apache related things (apr, serf, ...) have this
>     problem, or if its more general.
>