Introduction to Subversion
Subversion is a version control
system that is designed to be a compelling replacement for
CVS in the open source community.
It extends and enhances CVS'
feature set, while maintaining a similar interface for those
already familiar with CVS. These
instructions install the client and server software used to
manipulate a Subversion
repository. Creation of a repository is covered at Running a
Subversion Server.
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Note
Development versions of BLFS may not build or run some packages
properly if LFS or dependencies have been updated since the most
recent stable versions of the books.
Package Information
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Download (HTTP):
https://archive.apache.org/dist/subversion/subversion-1.14.4.tar.bz2
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Download MD5 sum: be9f6c5e8bb80e465152b4c5160d7f54
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Download size: 8.1 MB
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Estimated disk space required: 193 MB (add 189 MB for
bindings, 54 MB for docs, 1.3 GB for tests)
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Estimated build time: 0.4 SBU (Using parallelism=4; add 2.0
SBU for bindings, 30 SBU for tests)
Subversion Dependencies
Required
Apr-Util-1.6.3 and SQLite-3.47.0
Recommended
Serf-1.3.10 (for handling http:// and https://
URLs) and SWIG-4.3.0 (for regenerating the build system)
Optional
Apache-2.4.62, Boost-1.86.0, Cyrus
SASL-2.1.28, dbus-1.14.10, Doxygen-1.12.0 (for
generating HTML documentation), gnome-keyring-46.2, libsecret-0.21.4, Py3c-1.4 (for the
python bindings, and tests), Python-3.13.0 (with sqlite support for
the tests), Ruby-3.3.6, SWIG-4.3.0, and UTF8proc
Optional (for the Java Bindings)
One of OpenJDK-23.0.1, Dante or Jikes, JUnit 4 (to test the Java bindings)
and apache-ant-1.10.15.
Installation of Subversion
Install Subversion by running the
following commands:
PYTHON=python3 \
./configure --prefix=/usr \
--disable-static \
--with-apache-libexecdir \
--with-utf8proc=internal &&
make
If you have Doxygen-1.12.0 installed and you wish to build
the API documentation, issue:
doxygen doc/doxygen.conf
If you wish to build the Java bindings pass the --enable-javahl parameter to the configure command. In addition,
if you want to run the Java test suite, you have to specify the
location of the JUnit file by
adding --with-junit=<path to junit
jar> (for instance --with-junit=/usr/local/java/lib/junit-4.13.jar) to
configure. The JUnit
jar file is no longer included in apache-ant-1.10.15
and must be downloaded separately. To build the Java bindings,
issue the following command:
make -j1 javahl
If you want to compile Perl,
Python, or Ruby bindings, issue any of the following
command:
make swig-pl # for Perl
make swig-py \
swig_pydir=/usr/lib/python3.13/site-packages/libsvn \
swig_pydir_extra=/usr/lib/python3.13/site-packages/svn # for Python
make swig-rb # for Ruby
To test the results, issue: make
check.
To test the results of any of the SWIG bindings, you can use any of the
following commands: make
check-swig-pl, make
check-swig-py, or make check-swig-rb.
Now, as the root user:
make install &&
install -v -m755 -d /usr/share/doc/subversion-1.14.4 &&
cp -v -R doc/* /usr/share/doc/subversion-1.14.4
If you built the Java bindings, issue the following command as the
root user to install them:
make install-javahl
If you built the Perl,
Python, or Ruby bindings, issue any of the following
commands as the root user to
install them:
make install-swig-pl
make install-swig-py \
swig_pydir=/usr/lib/python3.13/site-packages/libsvn \
swig_pydir_extra=/usr/lib/python3.13/site-packages/svn
make install-swig-rb
The java bindings need to be installed in order for the tests to
run, since the tests attempt to look for them in CLASSPATH. To test
the results of the Java bindings build, issue LANG=C make check-javahl.
Command Explanations
--disable-static: This
switch prevents installation of static versions of the libraries.
--with-apache-libexecdir:
If Apache-2.4.62 is installed, the shared
Apache modules are built. This
switch allows to have those modules installed to Apache's configured module dir instead of
/usr/libexec. It has no effect if
Apache is not installed.
--with-utf8proc=internal:
Remove these switches if you have installed the optional
dependencies.
--enable-javahl: enables compilation of
Java high level bindings. Running make javahl is necessary to do
the compilation.
--with-junit=<location of the junit jar
file>: gives the location of the junit jar, otherwise the
javahl tests cannot be run.
--disable-gmock: Do not use the
Googlemock testing framework.