Trouble building Subversion 1.5.5 with SSL/zlib on Mac OS X

So I’m rebuilding my system today and rather than using the built-in svn client that comes with Leopard I figured I’d build and install my own copy of the latest and greatest (1.5.5) into /usr/local like I have for years. The process is pretty strait forward but I always enjoyed using this post from Dan Benjamin as a basis for my madness.

The problem. So, like Dan, I would prefer to setup SVN to use zlib and have access to SSL and so I’ve tried his config line.

./configure --prefix=/usr/local --with-openssl --with-ssl --with-zlib

Doing the config with prefix only works fine but SSL and zlib both have their own issues.

For the latter I get “configure: error: —with-zlib requires an argument.” and when trying the ssl flags I get “WARNING: Unrecognized options: —with-openssl” and later at the end

Configuring Serf...  
configure: error: --with-openssl requires a path  
configure failed for serf

:(

I suppose I could move on and use the simple config but I’m sure compression and ssl will help me in the long run. Perhaps these things are built in now? Perhaps I’m a moron and am missing the obvious? (I’m not a wiz on the command line by any means.) Anyways, if you have any suggestions let me know. Thanks.

Posted on: January 5, 2009 – 1:56 PM

4 Comments

  1. Tom Harrington wrote:

    That article you linked to is good but seems to be out of date. The —with-openssl argument seems to be obsolete. And I’m not sure why —with-zlib wants a path, but it needs a path to a place where it can find both libz and zlib.h.

    I was able to build Subversion with:

    ./configure --prefix=/usr/local --with-ssl --with-zlib=/usr/

    I haven’t tested the result at all, but there were no configure or build errors. (None related to this— it did warn me that I don’t have a recent-enough version of Berkeley DB, but I use FSFS anyway).

  2. Mike Zornek wrote:

    Thanks for the suggestions Tom. This seems to work for me though I still end the make with some bizarre error messages. That said after a make install I’m rebuilt some repositories and done some svn workflow without any issues.

    Thanks again!

  3. Mike Zornek wrote:

    Posting here for my own notes;

    A kind fellow on the SVN Users list pointed me at a svn binary he maintains that has a nice list of wrappers and modules ready to go. I may try it out in the future:

    http://www.open.collab.net/downloads/community/

  4. Travis wrote:

    Tom, thanks for the tip. I was going crazy trying to get Subversion 1.5.6 installed.

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