On Thu, Mar 01, 2012 at 01:04:04PM +0100, Stefan Sperling wrote: > On Thu, Mar 01, 2012 at 03:08:55AM -0800, coolie wrote: > > 4073 says this is supposed to have been fixed. I'm now on 1.7.5 and still > > have the same issue. > > > > I can't use a relative path cos that is not where the libray is. I need > > absolute because some apps (viz VS 2010) require absolute paths for library > > references. > > It seems that this has been fixed in trunk but the fix hasn't > been backported to 1.7.x.
Oh, and to be clear, these fixes replace the assertion with an error message saying the externals definition is invalid because it points to an absolute path. Currently, externals definitions cannot point to absolute paths. This might be fixed in the future, once multiple working copies can share a single .svn directory. For now, you'll have to run a separate checkout to C:\lib if you need a subversion working copy there. If that doesn't help you, you'll have to find some other way of working around this. It seems that externals won't help you.
