[users] Subversion 1.4.2 for FC4? [SOLVED]

[Andre Oliveira da Costa]

On Fri, 15 Dec 2006 18:39:27 +0100 (CET)
Dag Wieers <dag at wieers.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 15 Dec 2006, Andre Oliveira da Costa wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 14 Dec 2006 08:17:16 -0200 Andre Oliveira da Costa <costa at tecgraf.puc-rio.br> wrote:
> > 
> > > we're desperately needing Subversion client 1.4.2 for FC4. I tried to
> > > build it myself from FC6 SRPM but it depends on apr-devel >= 0.9.7. I
> > > will try next to upgrade apr myself, but I was wondering if someone
> > > could already have done this, or has any tip to share about it (aside
> > > from "forget it" ;-)).
> > 
> > just to followup on this: I finally managed to compile svn 1.4.2 with
> > the help of some folks on the svn ML =))
> > 
> > First thing needed was to upgrade both apr and apr-util to the same
> > version (0.9.13), which, of course, makes lots of sense. Building apr
> > 0.9.13 was a breeze, I basically used the same spec file from 0.9.6 (had
> > to disbale a couple of patches that either had already been applied or
> > were already incompatible).
> > 
> > The reason why I tried mixing different versions was because apr-util
> > 0.9.13 build failed because one of its self-tests (testdbm) failed
> > consistently. After some attempts, I managed to go through passing an
> > additional compilation flag '--with-berkeley-db'.
> > 
> > Once I got these two installed, subversion 1.4.2 compiled just fine =)
> > 
> > If anyone is interested on spec files for apr and apr-util, just let me
> > know.
> 
> I assume that you require the new apr installed to make it work. So it's 
> not a solution for people unless they upgrade their apr on RHEL3 and 
> RHEL4.
> 
> Because of this I will not make any subversion 1.4 packages. The only way 
> out is to allow subversion 1.4 to build against apr <= 0.9.6.

Makes sense. I'll ask on the svn users ML if there's real reason for
requiring version 0.9.7+

Regards,

Andre

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Andre Oliveira da Costa
(costa at tecgraf.puc-rio.br)