[MacPorts] #20760: MacPorts-1.8.0: build from tar ball fails to install on Tiger if default source is a local directory maintained with svn

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#20760: MacPorts-1.8.0: build from tar ball fails to install on Tiger if default
source is a local directory maintained with svn
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 Reporter:  devans@…             |       Owner:  macports-tickets@…                   
     Type:  defect               |      Status:  new                                  
 Priority:  Normal               |   Milestone:  MacPorts 1.8.1                       
Component:  base                 |     Version:  1.8.0                                
 Keywords:  svn                  |        Port:                                       
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Comment(by devans@…):

 After time to think about this some more, the problem is that the svn
 binary being installed by a previous version
 of MacPorts, is not in the installer's restricted path.

 Configure allows the path to svn to be specified using the environment
 variable SVN but doesn't check to see
 if it exists.

 I suggest that configure be modified to do such a check (perhaps including
 the target install prefix) to see
 if svn exists and error out if it does not with a message about using SVN
 to set where it might be even though
 it is not always necessary.

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Ticket URL: <http://trac.macports.org/ticket/20760#comment:6>
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