Why not upgrade CVS? Subversion, GNU Arch, etc.

Why not upgrade CVS? Subversion, GNU Arch, etc.

Posted Jun 3, 2004 22:01 UTC (Thu) by brouhaha (subscriber, #1698)
In reply to: Why not upgrade CVS? Subversion, GNU Arch, etc. by drathos
Parent article: Arch for CVS Users (Linux Journal)

I'd be interested in using Subversion instead of CVS if it didn't have so many dependencies.

If you have dependency problems building Subversion (as I did when building it on Red Hat 9), and if you don't need the WebDAV/Delta support (which is superfluous since you can use svnserve instead), it's actually quite easy to build Subversion. It can build all of its prerequisites in its own source tree and statically link them in. The source tarball includes everything you need other than Berkeley DB.

I just untarred db-4.2.52 (the latest stable release at that time) inside the top level of the Subversion source tree, and configured it thusly:

./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-all-static --with-berkeley-db=db-4.2.52 --without-apache --without-apxs

Now I use Fedora Core 2, which has all the appropriate prerequisites, and includes Subversion anyhow.

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