Comments on: Installing Subversion 1.6.6 from source on Ubuntu 8.04

By: bimalvdas

bimalvdas — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 17:13:11 +0000

Wonderful post

It simply worked going through step by step.

just had a problem @
./configure –prefix=/usr/bin/subversion-1.6.6 –disable-nls

but with ./configure it worked fine.

cheers

By: asartalo

asartalo — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 11:23:23 +0000

Thanks for the tutorial. I had some problems running ./configure on my system (Jaunty). I kept getting this error:

configure: error: failed to recognize APR_INT64_T_FMT on this platform.

After goggling around for answers (got some answers from these email exhanges: http://svn.haxx.se/dev/archive-2005-01/1120.shtml), it turns out that my SVN_APR_INCLUDES path points to my xampp installation:

SVN_APR_INCLUDES: -I/opt/lampp/include

And that’s because I edited $PATH variable to point to my xampp bin directory by editing my ~/.bashrc file like this:

export PATH=”/opt/lampp/bin:$PATH”

To fix the problem, I had to simply comment out that line:

#export PATH=”/opt/lampp/bin:$PATH

and ./configure finally worked.

Thanks for the tutorial and I hope this little bit of information helps someone else.

By: James

James — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 14:39:59 +0000

Thanks.. changes made where required.

By: Ryan Raines

Ryan Raines — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 14:34:21 +0000

Ubuntu8.04.3
minor corrections you might consider:
‘svn -version’ should be ‘svn –version’
‘make install’ should be ‘sudo make install’ (need write permissions)

By: Ryan Raines

Ryan Raines — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 14:31:44 +0000

It works – thanks James.

By: William Notowidagdo

William Notowidagdo — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 03:31:11 +0000

Good post.

I believe ‘make install’ should be ‘sudo make install’.

By: Andy Bright

Andy Bright — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 11:09:46 +0000

I had some dependency hassle when compiling PHP on ubuntu recently, until I discovered the amazing apt-get build-dep PackageName command.

There is a good chance that apt-get build-dep subversion will grab all the dependencies for compiling subversion.