On Fri, Dec 03, 2010 at 02:20:54PM +0100, Victor Engmark wrote: > On Dec 3, 2010, at 12:33 PM, Andy Levy wrote: > > > On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 02:50, Victor Engmark > > <victor.engm...@terreactive.ch> wrote: > >> It would be very useful to be able to compile Subversion to use a > >> different path than /etc/subversion/config for the default configuration > >> file. Is this possible? I've also asked on ServerFault > >> <http://serverfault.com/questions/208385/subversion-doesnt-use-custom-config-path>. > >> > > > > Look at the next to last Global option in svn help <command>. > > This would be even more useful as a compile option (for example the existing > --sysconfdir), instead of at each run. >
You can change this line in subversion/libsvn_subr/config_impl.h ... # define SVN_CONFIG__SYS_DIRECTORY "/etc/subversion" ... and recompile. We would happily accept patches that make this path configurable from the configure script. Stefan
