* subversion/tests/cmdline/davautocheck.sh:
Document the reason for using the run-time instead of compile-time HTTPD
version in the test driver.
@@ -778,6 +778,12 @@ else
|| fail "Subversion client couldn't find and/or load ra_dav library '$HTTP_LIBRARY'"
fi
+# Our configure script extracts the HTTPD version from
+# headers. However, that may not be the same as the runtime version;
+# an example of this discrepancy occurs on OSX 1.9.5, where the
+# headers report 2.2.26 but the server reports 2.2.29. Since our tests
+# use the version to interpret test case results, use the actual
+# runtime version here to avoid spurious test failures.
HTTPD_VERSION="$($APXS -q HTTPD_VERSION)"
if [ $# = 0 ]; then
