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

By: Travis

Travis — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 20:10:43 +0000

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

By: Mike Zornek

Mike Zornek — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 20:20:47 +0000

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/

By: Mike Zornek

Mike Zornek — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 18:23:45 +0000

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!

By: Tom Harrington

Tom Harrington — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 21:59:38 +0000

That article you linked to is good but seems to be out of date.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).