Notes on Installing SubVersion on CentOS v4.2

Author: Kevin A. McGrail (kevin@mcgrail.com)

SubVersion Home Page: http://subversion.tigris.org/

Free SubVersion Online Book: Version Control with Subversion - http://svnbook.red-bean.com/ -- Mirrored 
at:  http://www.pccc.com/downloads/subversion/svn-book.pdf


Because CentOS includes DB4 v4.2.52 & SWIG v1.3.21 & AutoConf 2.59 natively, we can simply download and compile SubVersion.

#Compiling SubVersion

mkdir /tmp/SUB20050304
cd /tmp/SUB20050304
wget http://www.pccc.com/downloads/subversion/subversion-1.3.2.tar.bz2

cd /usr/src
tar jxvf /tmp/SUB20050304/subversion-1.3.2.tar.bz2

cd subversion-1.3.2

rm -f /usr/local/lib/libsvn*
rm -f /usr/local/lib/libapr*
rm -f /usr/local/lib/libexpat*
rm -f /usr/local/lib/libneon*


./configure --with-libs=/usr/local/ssl --with-ssl --with-python=/usr/bin/python2 --with-apr=/usr/local/apache2 --with-apr-util=/usr/local/apache2 --with-apxs=/usr/local/apache2/bin/apxs

NOTE: When compiling 1.3.2 with Apache 2.2.0, I found I was unable to run svn diff, svn update, etc. without segmentation faults, weird characters and oddities and errors like 'svn: Can't read file XXXX End of file found'.  Instead, I compiled with the command line of ./configure --with-libs=/usr/local/ssl --with-ssl and all is working fine.

make
make check ((takes like 700MB and quite a long time ;-) )
make install

make swig-py
make check-swig-py
make install-swig-py

make swig-pl
make check-swig-pl
make install-swig-pl

make clean
#ADD /usr/local/lib/svn-python/libsvn to /etc/ld.so.conf
ldconfig -v


#GET RID OF THE TEMP FILES
rm -rf /tmp/SUB20050304