Just went through a few dramas tonight to upgrade svn on my system from the old 1.3.2 version that is in the ubuntu repos to the latest 1.4.3.
I found this howto which gets you almost all the way there. Unfortunately amd64 uses will get a link error complaining that libneon.a needs to be compiled with the fPIC flag. This is easily fixed by changing the following line in neon/src/Makefile (line 28) after the configure step from this
CFLAGS = -g -O2
to
CFLAGS = -g -O2 -fPIC
then you make and install as per the howto.
HTH!
Thanks for this. Helped me compile svn 1.4.6 on my web hosting’s server.
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thanks dude, helps with 1.5 as well…tricky libraries
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