Some Notes on Installing SubVersion

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

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


1st, I'm running 7.3RH as my key distribution.  Love it or hate it, I'm big on stability and
this is one stable platform.

2nd, playing with db scares me ;-)  There are lots of programs that rely on specific versions
and I don't want to break my system.  SubVersion works best with db4 so I want to install that.

3rd, Yes, I tried the source RPM for DB4 and it conflicted with db3-utils and db3-devel.  I'm
not going to risk breaking things so I'm resorting to source.

4th, I don't like changing where the author intends his files to go unless there is a reason and 
I am hoping this will leave me with things divided between db3 and db4.  

In this case, having everything nicely in it's own dir sounds good. And since hindsight is 20/20
this helped a lot since I started with db-4.0.14 only to find out that 4.2.52 is what I really 
wanted!  All I had to do was rm -rf /usr/local/BerkeleyDB4.0 and start over!

5th, I don't run Apache 2.0 which unfortunately also removes the SubVersion<->Apache tie-ins.
They have a good suggestion to use Apache 2.0 on an alternate port which I may investigate in
the future.


OK, so SubVersion is fairly pointed about have things a certain way.  So I am following their
guidelines to a tee.  


First, I upgraded to Autoconf v2.59.  

#UNINSTALL THE OLD AUTOCONF
rpm -e autoconf --nodeps

mkdir /tmp/SUB20050304
cd /tmp/SUB20050304
wget http://www.pccc.com/downloads/subversion/autoconf-2.59.tar.gz
cd /usr/src/
tar zxvf /tmp/SUB20050304/autoconf-2.59.tar.gz

cd autoconf-2.59
./configure --prefix=/usr
make
make install



Next, I installed DB4.  I installed the recommended 4.2 tree because the APR doesn't support
the 4.3 tree yet.

#INSTALL DB v4.2.52
cd /tmp/SUB20050304
wget http://www.pccc.com/downloads/subversion/db-4.2.52.tar.gz
wget http://www.pccc.com/downloads/subversion/patch.4.2.52.1
wget http://www.pccc.com/downloads/subversion/patch.4.2.52.2
wget http://www.pccc.com/downloads/subversion/patch.4.2.52.3

cd /usr/src/
tar zxvf /tmp/SUB20050304/db-4.2.52.tar.gz

cd /usr/src/db-4.2.52
patch -p0 < /tmp/SUB20050304/patch.4.2.52.1
patch -p0 < /tmp/SUB20050304/patch.4.2.52.2
patch -p0 < /tmp/SUB20050304/patch.4.2.52.3
cd build_unix

../dist/configure  --enable-compat185 --enable-dump185 --enable-shared --enable-static --enable-rpc --enable-cxx

edit Makefile and change DB185INC to include -I/usr/include/db1/ and DB185LIB to include -ldb1.  Also add -s to LDFLAGS.

make

make install

add this to /etc/ld.so.conf
 /usr/local/BerkeleyDB.4.2/lib

run ldconfig --verbose


#Next I installed SWIG.  

#INSTALL SWIG
http://www.swig.org/

#UNINSTALL THE OLD SWIG
rpm -e swig

cd /tmp/SUB20050304
wget http://www.pccc.com/downloads/subversion/swig-1.3.24.tar.gz

cd /usr/src
tar zxvf /tmp/SUB20050304/swig-1.3.24.tar.gz
cd SWIG-1.3.24

./configure --with-python=/usr/bin/python2
make

#NOTE: make check broke for me.  I chose to ignore this and continue because it seemed to break on PHP.
#make check
make install

#NOT NEEDED ANYMORE?
#make runtime
#make install-runtime


#Finally, down to *actually* compiling SubVersion
cd /tmp/SUB20050304
wget http://www.pccc.com/downloads/subversion/subversion-1.2.3.tar.bz2

cd /usr/src
tar jxvf /tmp/SUB20050304/subversion-1.2.3.tar.bz2

cd subversion-1.2.3

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-berkeley-db=/usr/local/BerkeleyDB.4.2 --with-python=/usr/bin/python2
make
make check # NOTE ((takes like 700MB and quite a long time ;-) )
make install

make 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