Open Tech Notes

Got error message when using SVN client

Using –with-apr  and –with-apr-util when compiling  SVN  AND the paths pointing to  apache’s  package, namely like this

./configure --with-apxs=/usr/local/apache2/bin/apxs \
–with-apr=/source/httpd-2.2.4/srclib/apr \
–with-apr-util=/source/httpd-2.2.4/srclib/apr-util

updated by May 21, 2007
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if you got error massage like this:

you can do this first:
./configure --with-apxs=/usr/local/apache2/bin/apxs

I don’t know why, it is really weird.
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Notice that folder /source is for my case, you have to change it to your folder where the Apache’s source resides

setup Subversion server on CentOS/Apache friends

I have no choice, the company I am working with is currently using CentOS4.4/Apache friends 1.6. But they need SVN.

The little trick is, the apache friends 1.6 could not be compiled with mod_dav_svn.so so that I could not pass the ./configure with –with-apxs=/opt/lampp/bin/apxs.

Finally, I gave up, compiled Subversion 1.4.3 without apxs. Everything worked fine but the HTTP method.

Then I looked into Apache friends 1.6, I found it comes with Apache 2.2.4.

So I used another machine to compile Apache 2.2.4 like this

#./configure –enable-dav –enable-so –enable-maintainer-mode
#make
#make install

compile Subversion 1.4.3 like this

#./configure –with-apxs=/usr/local/apache2/bin/apxs
# rm /usr/local/lib/libsvn*
# make clean && make && make install

Eventually, I got

mod_dav_svn.so and mod_authz_svn.so

I copied them to /opt/lampp/modules

In /opt/lampp/etc/httpd.conf added two lines like this

LoadModule dav_svn_module  modules/mod_dav_svn.so
LoadModule authz_svn_module modules/mod_authz_svn.so

restart lampp, DONE !

Updated on March 28, 2007
Thanks Runge, here are the two files
mod_dav_svn.so
mod_authz.svn.so