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13 B. Dependency Overview
14 C. Dependencies in Detail
17 A. Building from a Tarball or RPM
18 B. Building the Latest Source under Unix
19 C. Building under Unix in Different Directories
20 D. Installing from a Zip or Installer File under Windows
21 E. Building the Latest Source under Windows
23 III. BUILDING A SUBVERSION SERVER
25 B. Making and Installing the Subversion Server
26 C. Configuring Apache for Subversion
27 D. Running and Testing
28 E. Alternative: 'svnserve' and ra_svn
30 IV. PLATFORM-SPECIFIC ISSUES
34 V. PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE BINDINGS (PYTHON, PERL, RUBY, JAVA)
43 This document is written for people who intend to build
44 Subversion from source code. Normally, the only people who do
45 this are Subversion developers and package maintainers.
47 If neither of these labels fits you, we recommend you find an
48 appropriate binary package of Subversion and install that.
49 While the Subversion project doesn't officially release binary
50 packages, a number of volunteers have made such packages
51 available for different operating systems. Most Linux and BSD
52 distributions already have Subversion packages ready to go via
53 standard packaging channels, and other volunteers have built
54 'installers' for both Windows and OS X. Visit this page for
57 http://subversion.tigris.org/project_packages.html
59 For those of you who still wish to build from source, Subversion
60 follows the Unix convention of "./configure && make", but it has
61 a number of dependencies.
64 B. Dependency Overview
66 You'll need the following build tools to compile Subversion:
68 * autoconf 2.58 or later (Unix only)
69 * libtool 1.4 or later (Unix only)
70 * a reasonable C compiler (gcc, Visual Studio, etc.)
73 Subversion also depends on the following third-party libraries:
75 * libapr and libapr-util (REQUIRED for client and server)
77 The Apache Portable Runtime (APR) library provides an
78 abstraction of operating-system level services such as file
79 and network I/O, memory management, and so on. It also
80 provides convenience routines for things like hashtables,
81 checksums, and argument processing. While it was originally
82 developed for the Apache HTTP server, APR is a standalone
83 library used by Subversion and other products. It is a
84 critical dependency for all of Subversion; it's the layer
85 that allows Subversion clients and servers to run on
86 different operating systems.
88 * libz (REQUIRED for client and server)
90 Subversion uses zlib for compressing binary differences.
91 These diff streams are used everywhere -- over the network,
92 in the repository, and in the client's working copy.
94 * libneon or libserf (OPTIONAL for client)
96 The Neon and Serf libraries both allow the Subversion client
97 to send HTTP requests. This is necessary if you want your
98 client to access a repository served by the Apache HTTP
99 server. There is an alternate 'svnserve' server as well,
100 though, and clients automatically know how to speak the
101 svnserve protocol. Thus it's not strictly necessary for your
102 client to be able to speak HTTP... though we still recommend
103 that your client be built to speak both HTTP and svnserve
104 protocols. Your client can be compiled against either
105 libneon or libserf (or both), as they offer competing
108 * OpenSSL (OPTIONAL for client and server)
110 OpenSSL enables your client to access SSL-encrypted https://
111 URLs (using either libneon or libserf) in addition to
112 unencrypted http:// URLs. To use SSL with Subversion's
113 WebDAV server, Apache needs to be compiled with OpenSSL as
116 * Berkeley DB (OPTIONAL for client and server)
118 There are two different repository 'back-end'
119 implementations. One implementation stores data in a flat
120 filesystem (known as FSFS); the other implementation stores
121 data in a Berkeley DB database (known as BDB). When you
122 create a repository, you have the option of specifying a
123 storage back-end. The Berkeley DB back-end will only be
124 available if the BDB libraries are discovered at compile
127 * libsasl (OPTIONAL for client and server)
129 If the Cyrus SASL library is detected at compile time, then
130 the svn client (and svnserve server) will be able to utilize
131 SASL to do various forms of authentication when speaking the
134 * Python, Perl, Java, Ruby (OPTIONAL)
136 Subversion is mostly a collection of C libraries with
137 well-defined APIs, with a small collection of programs that
138 use the APIs. If you want to build Subversion API bindings
139 for other languages, you need to have those languages
140 available at build time.
143 C. Dependencies in Detail
145 Subversion depends on a number of third party tools and libraries.
146 Some of them are only required to run a Subversion server; others
147 are necessary just for a Subversion client. This section explains
148 what other tools and libraries will be required so that Subversion
149 can be built with the set of features you want.
151 On Unix systems, the './configure' script will tell you if you are
152 missing the correct version of any of the required libraries or
153 tools, so if you are in a real hurry to get building, you can skip
154 straight to section II. If you want to gather the pieces you will
155 need before starting out, however, you should read the following.
157 If you're just installing a Subversion client, the Subversion
158 team has created a package containing the minimal prerequisite
159 libraries (Apache Portable Runtime, Neon, and Zlib) called the
160 "dependency package" tarball or zipfile. You should be able to
161 find it at the same place that you downloaded the Subversion
162 tarball itself from. (Note that this is new as of Subversion
163 1.4.0; previous releases packaged the dependencies in the same
164 tarball as Subversion itself.) If you don't have these
165 libraries installed already, you can simply unpack the
166 dependency package "on top of" the Subversion package; for
167 example, if you are using a .tar.gz bundle on Unix, you could
170 $ tar xzvf subversion-1.x.x.tar.gz
171 $ tar xzvf subversion-deps-1.x.x.tar.gz
172 $ cd subversion-1.x.x
174 This will place 'apr', 'apr-util', 'neon', and 'zlib'
175 directories directly into your unpacked Subversion distribution,
176 where they will be automatically configured and built by
177 Subversion's build process.
179 Note: Because previous builds of Subversion may have installed older
180 versions of these libraries, you may want to run some of the cleanup
181 commands described in section II.B before installing the following.
184 1. Apache Portable Runtime 0.9.7 or 1.2.X (REQUIRED)
186 Whenever you want to build any part of Subversion, you need the
187 Apache Portable Runtime (APR) and the APR Utility (APR-util)
188 libraries. These are included in the Subversion dependency package -
189 if you are building from a source tarball and wish to use the versions
190 of APR and APR-util included there, just unpack the dependency package
191 and skip ahead to the next requirement.
194 ****************************************************************
195 ** IMPORTANT ISSUE ABOUT APR VERSIONS: READ THIS. **
197 ****************************************************************
199 | APR 0.9.X and 1.X are binary-incompatible. |
203 | - if you are already using Subversion with APR 0.9.X, and |
204 | then upgrade your libapr to 1.X without rebuilding |
205 | Subversion, things will break and segfault. |
207 | - if your Subversion server libraries are linked to one |
208 | version of APR, but your Apache server is linked to a |
209 | different version, things will break and segfault. |
211 | Subversion distribution dependencies: |
212 | ------------------------------------- |
214 | For a long time, Subversion's main distribution contained |
215 | APR and APR-UTIL (both 0.9.x), plus a few other things that |
216 | we couldn't count on the installation system having. But |
217 | nowadays, Subversion's requirements are no longer exotic, |
218 | and so our main distribution contains just the Subversion |
219 | source code itself -- people compiling Subversion are |
220 | expected to either have the APR libraries already installed |
221 | on their system, or to be capable of fetching them easily. |
223 | For convenience, we still offer a "deps" distribution too, |
224 | containing APR, APR-UTIL, and various other dependencies. |
225 | The deps dist used to contain APR[-UTIL] 0.9.x, but as of |
226 | 1.5.0 we are finally upgrading it to APR[-UTIL] 1.X. This |
227 | is because we think by now there are very few systems that |
228 | will have binary compatibility issues, and of those, few are |
229 | likely to build using the "deps" dist. |
231 | Note that it's *perfectly* safe to use APR 1.X from the |
232 | beginning. In fact, we recommend it. If you're building |
233 | Subversion for the first time, there's no compatibility |
234 | issue to worry about, so grab the latest version of APR (or |
235 | just use our deps dist). |
237 | If you already have a Subversion installation using APR |
238 | 0.9.x, it's still possible to move to APR 1.X safely. Just |
239 | be sure to recompile Subversion (and Apache httpd if |
240 | necessary) after upgrading APR! |
241 |______________________________________________________________|
244 If you are not building from a tarball with the dependency
245 package, you will need to get these yourself:
247 http://apr.apache.org/download.cgi
249 On Unix systems, if you already have the APR libraries compiled and do
250 not wish to regenerate them from source code, then Subversion needs to
251 be able to find them.
253 There are a couple of options to "./configure" that tell it where
254 to look for the APR and APR-util libraries. By default, it will first
255 look for bundled versions of APR and APR-util, and then try to locate
256 already installed versions of the libraries using the apr-config and
257 apu-config scripts. These scripts provide all the relevant information
258 for the APR and APR-util installations.
260 If you want to specify the location of the APR library, you can use
261 the "--with-apr=" option of "./configure". It should be able to find
262 the apr-config script in the standard location under that directory
263 (e.g. ${prefix}/bin).
265 Similarly, you can specify the location of APR-util using the
266 "--with-apr-util=" option to "./configure". It will look for the
267 apu-config script relative to that directory.
269 For example, if you want to use the APR libraries you built
270 with the Apache httpd server, you could run:
272 $ ./configure --with-apr=/usr/local/apache2 \
273 --with-apr-util=/usr/local/apache2 ...
275 If you want Subversion to build the APR libraries from source
276 code as part of the Subversion build process, you can put their
277 source code into the "./apr" and "./apr-util" directories.
279 Be sure to use a native Windows SVN client (as opposed to
280 Cygwin's version) so that the .dsp files get carriage-returns at
281 the ends of their lines. Otherwise Visual Studio will complain
282 that it doesn't recognize the .dsp files.
284 If you use APR libraries checked out from svn in an Unix
285 environment, you need to run the 'buildconf' script in each
286 library's directory, to regenerate the configure scripts and
287 other files required for compiling the libraries:
289 $ cd apr; ./buildconf; cd ..
291 $ cd apr-util; ./buildconf; cd ..
296 Subversion's binary-differencing engine depends on zlib for
297 compression. Most Unix systems have libz pre-installed, but
298 if you need it, you can get it from
303 3. autoconf 2.58 or newer (Unix only)
305 This is required only if you plan to build from the latest source
306 (see section II.B). Generally only developers would be doing this.
309 4. libtool 1.4 or newer (Unix only)
311 This is required only if you plan to build from the latest source
314 Note: Some systems (Solaris, for example) require libtool 1.4.3 or
315 newer. The autogen.sh script knows about that.
318 5. An HTTP client libary: either neon or serf. (OPTIONAL)
320 neon and serf are competing implementations of HTTP client
321 libraries. If you want your client to be able to speak to an
322 Apache server (via a http:// or https:// URL), you must link
323 against at least one of these libraries. Though optional, we
324 strongly recommend this.
326 (If you link against both, you can configure which one is used
327 in your ~/.subversion/servers configuration file.)
329 a. Neon library 0.25, 0.26, 0.27, or 0.28 (http://www.webdav.org/neon/)
331 The Neon library allows a Subversion client to interact
332 with remote repositories over the Internet via a WebDAV
335 The source code is included with the Subversion
336 dependencies package, and it can also be obtained from:
338 http://www.webdav.org/neon/neon-0.25.5.tar.gz
339 http://www.webdav.org/neon/neon-0.26.4.tar.gz
340 http://www.webdav.org/neon/neon-0.27.2.tar.gz
342 Building Neon inside the subversion build:
344 The Neon library source code can be placed in "./neon" if
345 you want Subversion to build it as part of the Subversion
348 Unpack the archive using tar/gunzip. Rename the resulting
349 directory from ./neon-0.XX.Y to just "./neon", inside the
350 top level of your Subversion source tree. (This is what
351 unpacking the Subversion dependencies package does, too.)
353 Using Neon as an external library:
355 We recommend that you keep the neon installation out of the
356 Subversion working copy. This is because most developers
357 have multiple working copies of Subversion, and it is
358 easier to use a single instance of the Neon library for all
359 instances. To do this, just unzip/untar Neon, and build
360 and install it according to its own standard installation
361 instructions. Then follow the steps below to use the
362 installed Neon when building.
364 Subversion's configuration mechanism should auto-detect the
365 installed Neon. If it does not, you may need to set the
366 LDFLAGS environment variable when you run "./configure", or
367 specify Neon's location by passing the "--with-neon="
368 option to "./configure". Look for the "neon-config" script
369 in a "bin/" subdirectory of the target of "--with-neon".
370 For example, if you pass "--with-neon=/usr/local/myneon/",
371 then there should be a file
372 "/usr/local/myneon/bin/neon-config".
374 b. Serf library 0.1.2 (http://code.google.com/p/serf/)
376 serf is a library for HTTP and WebDAV which is an
377 alternative to Neon for accessing Subversion repositories
378 over http:// and https:// URLs. serf is designed as an
379 asynchronous library which can take advantage of HTTP
380 pipelining, so ra_serf may be more efficient than ra_neon
381 and better for HTTP proxy caches. The serf library can be
384 http://code.google.com/p/serf/
386 In order to use ra_serf instead of ra_neon, you must install
387 serf, and run Subversion's ./configure with the argument
388 --with-serf. (To only use ra_serf and not ra_neon, you
389 should also use --without-neon.) If serf is installed in a
390 non-standard place, you should use
392 --with-serf=/path/to/serf/install
394 instead. If you build with both ra_neon and ra_serf,
395 Subversion will use ra_neon by default; add "http-library =
396 serf" to the [global] section of your ~/.subversion/servers
397 file to use ra_serf instead.
399 For more information on serf and Subversion's ra_serf, see
400 the file subversion/libsvn_ra_serf/README.
403 6. OpenSSL (OPTIONAL)
405 The Neon and Serf libraries have support for SSL encryption by
406 relying on the OpenSSL library.
408 When Neon is created with this dependency, then the Subversion
409 client inherits the ability to support SSL connections. Neon
410 also has support for sending compressed data using the zlib
411 library which a Subversion client can take advantage of.
413 On Unix systems, if you are building neon as part of the
414 Subversion build process (as described in section I.4 above),
415 you can pass flags to Subversion's "./configure", and they will
416 be passed on to neon's "./configure". You need OpenSSL
417 installed on your system, and you must add "--with-ssl" as a
418 "./configure" parameter. If your OpenSSL installation is hard
419 for Neon to find, you may need to use "--with-libs=/path/to/lib"
420 in addition. In particular, on Red Hat (but not Fedora Core) it
421 is necessary to specify "--with-libs=/usr/kerberos" for OpenSSL
422 to be found. The zlib library is included in the Subversion
423 dependencies package, but if you are compiling Neon from a
424 different source you can also specify a path to the library
425 using "--with-libs". Consult the Neon documentation for more
426 information on how to use these parameters and versions of
429 Under Windows, you can specify the paths to these libraries by
430 passing the options --with-zlib and --with-openssl to gen-make.py.
432 You can also add support for these features to an Apache httpd server
433 to be used for Subversion using the same support libraries. The
434 Subversion build system will not provide them, however. You add them
435 by specifying parameters to the "./configure" script of the Apache
438 For getting SSL on your server, you would add the "--enable-ssl"
439 or "--with-ssl=/path/to/lib" option to Apache's "./configure"
440 script. Apache enables zlib support by default, but you can
441 specify a nonstandard location for the library with the
442 "--with-z=/path/to/dir" option. Consult the Apache documentation
443 for more details, and for other modules you may wish to install
444 to enhance your Subversion server.
446 If you don't already have it, you can get a copy of OpenSSL,
447 including instructions for building and packaging on both Unix
448 systems and Windows, at:
450 http://www.openssl.org/
453 7. Berkeley DB 4.X (OPTIONAL)
455 Berkeley DB is needed to build a Subversion server that supports
456 the BDB repository filesystem, or to access a BDB repository on
457 local disk. If you will only use the FSFS repository filesystem,
458 or if you are building a Subversion client that will only speak
459 to remote (networked) repositories, you don't need it.
461 The current recommended version is 4.4.20, which brings
462 auto-recovery functionality to the Berkeley DB database
463 environment. (Preliminary testing indicates that Subversion
464 will also work with Berkeley DB 4.5 once APR grows support for
467 If you must use an older version of Berkeley DB, we *strongly*
468 recommend using 4.3 or 4.2 over the 4.1 or 4.0 versions. Not
469 only are these significantly faster and more stable, but they
470 also enable Subversion repositories to automatically clean up
471 database journal files to save disk space.
473 You'll need Berkeley DB installed on your system. You can
476 http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/products/berkeley-db/index.html
478 If you have Berkeley DB installed in a place not searched by default
479 for includes and libraries, add something like this:
481 --with-berkeley-db=/usr/local/BerkeleyDB.4.4
483 to your `configure' switches, and the build process will use the
484 Berkeley library in the named directory. You may need to use a
485 different path, of course. Note that in order for the detection
486 to succeed, the dynamic linker must be able to find the libraries
489 If you are on the Windows platform and want to build Subversion,
490 a precompiled version of the Berkeley DB library is available for
491 download at the Subversion web site "Documents & files" area:
493 http://subversion.tigris.org/servlets/ProjectDocumentList
495 Look in the "Releases > Windows > Windows BDB" section.
498 8. Cyrus SASL library (OPTIONAL)
500 If the Simple Authentication and Security Layer (SASL) library
501 is detected on your system, then the Subversion client and
502 svnserve server can utilize its abliities for various form of
503 authentication. To learn more about SASL or to get the source
506 http://freshmeat.net/projects/cyrussasl/
509 9. Apache Web Server 2.X (OPTIONAL)
511 (http://httpd.apache.org/download.cgi)
513 The Apache httpd server is one of two methods to make your Subversion
514 repository available over a network - the other is a custom server
515 program called svnserve, which requires no extra software packages.
516 Building Subversion, the Apache server, and the modules that Apache
517 needs to communicate with Subversion are complicated enough that there
518 is a whole section at the end of this document that describes how it
519 is done: See section III for details.
522 10. Python 2.2 or newer (http://www.python.org/) (OPTIONAL)
524 If you want to run "make check" or build from the latest source
525 under Unix as described in section II.B and III.D, install
526 Python 2.2 or higher on your system. The majority of the test
527 suite is written in Python, as is part of Subversion's build
531 11. Perl 5.8 or newer (Windows only) (OPTIONAL)
533 To build Subversion under any of the MS Windows platforms, you
534 will also need Perl 5.8 or newer to run apr-util's w32locatedb.pl
538 12. MASM 6 or newer (Windows only, OPTIONAL)
540 The Windows build scripts for Subversion can use the Microsoft
541 Macro Assembler (MASM) to build an optimized version of the ZLib
542 library. Make sure that the version of MASM you use is compatible
543 with the C compiler. If you're using MSVC 6, and don't have MASM 6,
544 a free MASM-compatible assembler is available here:
546 http://www.masm32.org/
548 You only need ML.EXE and ML.ERR from this distribution.
550 The VS.NET installation already contains MASM (but note, that
551 version if MASM is not compatible with MSVC 6).
556 The primary documentation for Subversion is the free book
557 "Version Control with Subversion", a.k.a. "The Subversion Book",
558 obtainable from http://svnbook.red-bean.com/.
560 Various additional documentation exists in the doc/ subdirectory of
561 the Subversion source. See the file doc/README for more information.
568 A. Building from a Tarball or RPM
569 ------------------------------
571 1. Building from a Tarball
573 Download the most recent distribution tarball from:
575 http://subversion.tigris.org/servlets/ProjectDocumentList
577 Unpack it, and use the standard GNU procedure to compile:
583 You can also run the full test suite by running 'make check'.
586 2. Building from an RPM
588 If you are using Linux (or any OS that can use RPM) then another
589 possibility is to download the binary RPM from the
590 http://summersoft.fay.ar.us/pub/subversion directory.
592 Currently only Linux on the i386 platform is supported
593 using this method. You might also require additional RPMS
594 (which can be found in the above mentioned directory) to use the
595 subversion RPM depending on what packages you already have installed:
598 apache*.i386.rpm (Version 2.0.49 or greater)
599 db*.i386.rpm (Version 4.0.14 or greater; version 4.3.27 or
600 4.2.52 is preferred however)
601 expat (Comes with RedHat)
602 neon (Version 0.25.5)
604 After downloading, install it (as root user):
606 # rpm -ivh subversion*.386.rpm (add other packages as necessary)
608 Note: For an easy way to generate a new version of the RPM
609 source and binary package from the latest source code you
610 just checked out, see the packages/rpm/README file for a
611 one-line build procedure.
614 B. Building the Latest Source under Unix
615 -------------------------------------
617 These instructions assume you have already installed Subversion
618 and checked out a working copy of Subversion's own code --
619 either the latest /trunk code, or some branch or tag. You also
620 need to have already installed whatever prerequisites that
621 version of Subversion requires (if you haven't, the ./configure
622 step should complain).
624 You can discard the directory created by the tarball; you're
625 about to build the latest, greatest Subversion client. This is
626 the procedure Subversion developers use.
628 First off, if you have any Subversion libraries lying around
629 from previous 'make installs', clean them up first!
631 # rm -f /usr/local/lib/libsvn*
632 # rm -f /usr/local/lib/libapr*
633 # rm -f /usr/local/lib/libexpat*
634 # rm -f /usr/local/lib/libneon*
636 Start the process by running "autogen.sh":
640 This script will make sure you have all the necessary components
641 available to build Subversion. If any are missing, you will be
642 told where to get them from. (See the 'Build Requirements' in
645 Note: if the command "autoconf" on your machine does not run
646 autoconf 2.58 or later, but you do have a new enough autoconf
647 available, then you can specify the correct one with the
648 AUTOCONF variable. (The AUTOHEADER variable is similar.) This
649 may be required on Debian GNU/Linux, where "autoconf" is
650 actually a Perl script that attempts to guess which version is
651 required -- because of the interaction between Subversion's and
652 APR's configuration systems, the Perl script may get it wrong.
653 So for example, you might need to do:
655 $ AUTOCONF=autoconf2.58 sh ./autogen.sh
657 Once you've prepared the working copy by running autogen.sh,
658 just follow the usual configuration and build procedure:
664 (Optionally, you might want to pass --enable-maintainer-mode to
665 the ./configure script. This enables debugging symbols in your
666 binaries (among other things) and most Subversion developers use it.)
668 Since the resulting binary depends on shared libraries, the
669 destination library directory must be identified in your
670 operating system's library search path. That is in either
671 /etc/ld.so.conf or $LD_LIBRARY_PATH for Linux systems and in
672 /etc/rc.conf for FreeBSD, followed by a run of the 'ldconfig'
673 program. Check your system documentation for details. By
674 identifying the destination directory, Subversion will be able
675 to dynamically load repository access plugins. If you try to do
676 a checkout and see an error like:
678 subversion/libsvn_ra/ra_loader.c:209: (apr_err=170000)
679 svn: Unrecognized URL scheme 'http://svn.collab.net/repos/svn/trunk'
681 It probably means that the dynamic loader/linker can't find all
682 of the libsvn_* libraries.
684 Note that if you commonly build with the -jN option to make and
685 have unpacked a dependency tarball into your checkout, the make
686 step above may fail, because we don't ensure that third party
687 libraries in our source tree will finish building before
688 subversion itself. If you want to use -jN, use the following
692 $ make -jN external-all
698 C. Building under Unix in Different Directories
699 --------------------------------------------
701 It is possible to configure and build Subversion on Unix in a
702 directory other than the working copy. For example
704 $ svn co http://svn.collab.net/repos/svn/trunk svn
706 $ # get neon/apr as required
707 $ chmod +x autogen.sh
711 $ ../svn/configure [...with options as appropriate...]
714 puts the Subversion working copy in the directory svn and builds
715 it in a separate, parallel directory obj.
717 Why would you want to do this? Well there are a number of
720 * You may prefer to avoid "polluting" the working copy with
721 files generated during the build.
723 * You may want to put the build directory and the working
724 copy on different physical disks to improve performance.
726 * You may want to separate source and object code and only
729 * You may want to remote mount the working copy on multiple
730 machines, and build for different machines from the same
733 * You may want to build multiple configurations from the
736 The last reason above is possibly the most useful. For instance
737 you can have separate debug and optimized builds each using the
738 same working copy. Or you may want a client-only build and a
739 client-server build. Using multiple build directories you can
740 rebuild any or all configurations after an edit without the need
741 to either clean and reconfigure, or identify and copy changes
742 into another working copy.
745 D. Installing from a Zip or Installer File under Windows
746 --------------------------------------------------------
748 Of all the ways of getting a Subversion client, this is the
749 easiest. Download a Zip (*.zip) or self-extracting installer
750 (*-setup.exe) file from:
752 http://subversion.tigris.org/servlets/ProjectDocumentList?folderID=91
754 For a Zip file, run your unzipping utility (WinZIP, ZipGenius,
755 UltimateZIP, FreeZIP, whatever) and extract the DLLs and EXEs to
756 a directory of your choice. Included in the download is the SVN
757 client, the SVNADMIN administration tool, and the SVNLOOK
760 Note that if you need support for non-English locales you'll have
761 to set the APR_ICONV_PATH environment variable to the path of the
762 iconv directory in the folder that contains the Subversion install.
764 You may also want to add the bin directory in the Subversion folder
765 to your PATH environment variable so as to not have to use the full
766 path when running Subversion commands.
768 To test the installation, open a DOS box (run either "cmd" or
769 "command" from the Start menu's "Run..." menu option), change to
770 the directory you installed the executables into, and run:
772 C:\test>svn co http://svn.collab.net/repos/svn/trunk svn
774 This will get the latest Subversion sources and put them into the
777 If using a self-extracting .exe file, just run it instead of
778 unzipping it, to install Subversion.
780 E. Building the Latest Source under Windows
781 ----------------------------------------
785 * Visual Studio 6 and service pack. It can be built with later versions
786 of Visual Studio (Visual Studio.NET 2002, 2003, 2005 and Visual C++
787 Express 2005) but these instructions assume VS6.
788 * A recent Windows SDK if you are using Visual Studio 6.
789 You can get it from MSDN if you have it or from
790 http://www.microsoft.com/msdownload/platformsdk/sdkupdate/ if you
792 * Python 2.2 or higher, downloaded from http://www.python.org/ which is
793 used to generate the project files.
794 * Perl 5.8 or higher from http://www.activestate.com/
795 * Awk (from http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/bwk/awk95.exe) is
796 needed to compile Apache or APR. Note that this is the actual awk
797 program, not an installer - just rename it to awk.exe and it is
799 * Neon 0.26.1 or higher, downloaded from
800 http://www.webdav.org/neon/neon-0.26.1.tar.gz which is required
801 for building the client components. Neon is included in the zip file
802 distribution. (0.25.0+ compiles, but does not properly support all
804 * Apache apr, apr-util, and apr-iconv libraries, version 0.9.12.
805 Included in both the Subversion dependencies ZIP file and the
806 Apache 2.058 source zip. If you are building from a Subversion
807 checkout and have not downloaded Apache 2, then get these 3
808 libraries from http://www.apache.org/dist/apr/. Note that
809 the 1.x APR releases are not yet functional with Subversion --
810 see the note on '[Optional] Apache 2 source' below.
811 * ZLib 1.2 or higher is required and is included in the Subversion
812 dependencies zip file or can be obtained from http://www.zlib.org
813 * Either a Subversion client binary from http://subversion.tigris.org/ to
814 do the initial checkout of the Subversion source or the zip file
815 source distribution. See the section "Bootstrapping from a Zip or
816 Installer File under Windows" above for more.
817 * A means of unpacking the files, e.g., WinZIP or similar.
821 * [Optional] Apache 2 source, downloaded from
822 http://httpd.apache.org/download.cgi, these instructions assume
823 version 2.0.58. This is only needed for building the Subversion
824 server Apache modules. Note that although Subversion will compile
825 against Apache 2.2.3 and APR 1.2.7, there is a bug that causes
826 runtime failures with Subversion on Windows. The fix is included in
827 APR 1.2.8 and will be bundled in the next HTTP Server release
828 (likely to be 2.2.4).
829 * [Optional] Apache 2 msi install file, also from
830 http://httpd.apache.org/download.cgi (required for running the
831 tests). Only needed for testing the server dso modules and if
832 you are using Visual Studio 6.
833 Note that if you are not using Visual Studio 6 (and you want to
834 run and test the server modules) then you must rebuild Apache
835 from source -- do not use the stock MSI since mixing C runtime
836 libraries is not supported.
837 * [Optional] Berkeley DB for backend support of the server
838 components -- versions 4.3.27 and 4.4.20 are available from
839 http://subversion.tigris.org/servlets/ProjectDocumentList as
840 db-4.3.27-win32.zip and db-4.4.20-win32.zip.
841 For more information see Section I.5.
842 * [Optional] Openssl 0.9.7f or higher can be obtained from
843 http://www.openssl.org/source/openssl-0.9.7f.tar.gz
844 * [Optional] A modified version of GNU libintl, called
845 svn-win32-libintl.zip, can be used for displaying localized
846 messages. Available at:
847 http://subversion.tigris.org/servlets/ProjectDocumentList?folderID=2627
848 * [Optional] GNU gettext for generating message catalog (.mo)
849 files from message translations. You can get the latest
850 binaries from http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/. You'll need the
851 binaries (gettext-0.14.1-bin.zip) and dependencies
852 (gettext-0.14.1-dep.zip).
853 * [Optional] An assembler, e.g., MASM32 from http://www.masm32.com/
854 or nasm which is available from
855 http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/devel/nasm/binaries/win32/
859 The Neon library supports secure connections with OpenSSL and
860 on-the-wire compression with zlib. If you want to use the
861 secure connections feature, you should pass the option
862 "--with-openssl" to the gen-make.py script. See Section I.11 for
865 If you are installing under Win9x or NT4 (and do not have Internet
866 Explorer 5 or later) and svn.exe doesn't run, try installing
867 shfolder.dll from here (wrapped url):
869 http://download.microsoft.com/download/platformsdk/Redist/
870 5.50.4027.300/W9XNT4/EN-US/shfinst.EXE
874 This section describes how to unpack the files to make a build tree.
876 * Make a directory SVN and cd into it.
877 * Either checkout Subversion:
879 svn co http://svn.collab.net/repos/svn/trunk/ src-trunk
881 or unpack the zip file distribution and rename the directory to
884 * Install Visual Studio 6. You either have to tell the installer to
885 register environment variables or run VCVARS32.BAT before building
886 anything. If you are using a newer Visual Studio, use the
887 'Visual Studio 200x Command Prompt' on the Start menu.
888 * Install and register a recent Windows Core SDK if you are using
889 Visual Studio 6. This is a quote from the Microsoft February 2003
892 "To register the SDK bin, include, and library directories with
893 Microsoft Visual Studio® version 6.0 and Visual Studio .NET,
894 click Start, point to All Programs, point to Microsoft Platform
895 SDK February 2003, point to Visual Studio Registration, and then
896 click Register PSDK Directories with Visual Studio. This
897 registration process places the SDK bin, include, and library
898 directories at the beginning of the search paths, which ensures
899 that the latest headers and libraries are used when building
900 applications in the IDE. Note that for Visual Studio 6.0
901 integration to succeed, Visual Studio 6.0 must run at least once
902 before you select Register PSDK Directories with Visual
903 Studio. Also note that when this option is run, the IDEs should
906 * Install Python and add it to your path
907 * Install Perl (it should add itself to the path)
908 * Copy AWK (awk95.exe) to awk.exe (e.g. SVN\awk\awk.exe) and add
909 the directory containing it (e.g. SVN\awk) to the path.
910 * Install Apache 2 using the msi file if you are going to test the
911 server dso modules and are using Visual Studio 6. You must build
912 and install it from source if you are not using Visual Studio 6 and
913 want to build and/or test the server modules.
914 * If you checked out Subversion from the repository then extract neon
915 into SVN\src-trunk\neon, the zip file source distribution includes
917 * If you want BDB backend support, extract the Berkeley DB files
918 into SVN\src-trunk\db4-win32. It's a good idea to add
919 SVN\src-trunk\db4-win32\bin to your PATH, so that Subversion can find
920 the Berkeley DB DLLs.
922 [NOTE: This binary package of Berkeley DB is provided for
923 convenience only. Please don't address questions about
924 Berkeley DB that aren't directly related to using Subversion
925 to the project mailing list.]
927 If you build Berkeley DB from the source, you will have to copy
928 the file db-x.x.x\build_win32\db.h to
929 SVN\src-trunk\db4-win32\include, and all the import libraries to
930 SVN\src-trunk\db4-win32\lib. Again, the DLLs should be somewhere in
933 * If you want to build the server modules, extract Apache source into
935 * If you are building from a checkout of Subversion, and you are NOT
936 building Apache, then you will need the APR libraries. Depending
937 on how you got your version of APR, either:
938 - Extract the APR, APR-util and APR-iconv source distributions into
939 SVN\apr, SVN\apr-util, and SVN\apr-iconv respectively.
941 - Extract the apr, apr-util and apr-iconv directories from the
942 srclib folder in the Apache httpd source into SVN\apr,
943 SVN\apr-util, and SVN\apr-iconv respectively.
944 * Extract the ZLib sources into SVN\zlib if you are not using the zlib
945 included in the dependencies zip file.
946 * If you want secure connection (https) client support, extract openssl
947 into SVN\openssl-x.x.x
948 * If you want localized message support, extract svn-win32-libintl.zip
949 into SVN\svn-win32-libintl and extract gettext-x.x.x-bin.zip and
950 gettext-x.x.x-dep.zip into SVN\gettext-x.x.x-bin.
951 Add SVN\gettext-x.x.x-bin\bin to your path.
952 * [Optional] Extract MASM32 (only the ML.EXE and ML.ERR files) into
953 SVN\asm (or extract nasm into SVN\asm) and put it in your path.
955 E.4 Building the Binaries
957 To build the binaries either follow the instructions here or use
958 build\win32\vc6-build.bat.in after editing its default paths to match
959 yours and saving it as vc6-build.bat. The vc6-build.bat does a full build
960 using all options so it requires Apache 2 source and the other optional
963 Start in the SVN directory you created.
965 Set up the environment (commands should be one line even if wrapped here).
970 C:>set PYTHONDIR=C:\Python22
971 C:>set AWKDIR=C:\SVN\Awk
972 C:>set ASMDIR=C:\SVN\asm
973 C:>set SDKINC=C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDK\include
974 C:>set SDKLIB=C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDK\lib
975 C:>set GETTEXTBIN=C:\SVN\gettext-0.14.1-bin\bin
976 C:>PATH=%PATH%;%DRIVE%:\SVN\src-%DIR%\db4-win32;%ASMDIR%;
977 %PYTHONDIR%;%AWKDIR%;%GETTEXTBIN%
978 C:>set INCLUDE=%SDKINC%;%INCLUDE%
979 C:>set LIB=%SDKLIB%;%LIB%
984 C:>perl Configure VC-WIN32
985 [*] C:>call ms\do_masm
986 C:>nmake -f ms\ntdll.mak
991 *Note: Use "call ms\do_nasm" of you have nasm instead of MASM, or
992 "call ms\do_ms" if you don't have an assembler.
996 This step is only required for building the server dso modules.
998 The Subversion gen-make.py script must be run before building Apache or
999 Apache and Subversion will be running incompatible versions of apr.
1002 C:>python gen-make.py -t dsp --with-httpd=..\httpd-2.0.58
1003 --with-berkeley-db=db4-win32 --with-openssl=..\openssl-0.9.7f
1004 --with-zlib=..\zlib --with-libintl=..\svn-win32-libintl
1006 C:>set APACHEDIR=C:\Program Files\Apache Group\Apache2
1007 C:>msdev httpd-2.0.58\apache.dsw /MAKE "BuildBin - Win32 Release"
1013 * If you don't want to build mod_dav_svn, omit the --with-httpd
1014 option. The zip file source distribution contains apr, apr-util and
1015 apr-iconv in the default build location. If you have downloaded the
1016 apr files yourself you will have to tell the generator where to find
1017 the APR libraries; the options are --with-apr, --with-apr-util and
1019 * If you would like a debug build substitute Debug for Release in
1021 * There have been rumors that Subversion on Win32 can be built
1022 using the latest cygwin, you probably don't want the zip file source
1023 distribution though. ymmv.
1024 * The /USEENV switch to msdev makes it take notice of the INCLUDE and
1025 LIB environment variables, it also makes it ignore its own lib and
1026 include settings so you need to have the Windows SDK lib and include
1027 directories in the LIB and INCLUDE environment variables. Do *not*
1028 use this switch when starting up the msdev Visual environment. If you
1029 wish to build in the Visual environment the SDK lib and include
1030 directories must be in the Tools/Options/Directories settings (if you
1031 followed the 'Register the SDK with Visual Studio 6' instructions
1032 above this has been done for you).
1033 * If you are using Visual Studio .NET change -t dsw into -t vcproj and
1034 add the --vsnet-version=200x option on the gen-make.py command.
1035 In this case you will also have to distribute the C runtime dll with
1036 the binaries. Also, since Apache/APR do not provide .vcproj files,
1037 you will need to convert the Apache/APR .dsp files to .vcproj files
1038 with Visual Studio before building -- just open the Apache .dsw file
1039 and answer 'Yes To All' when the conversion dialog pops up, or you
1040 can open the individual .dsp files and convert them one at a time.
1041 The Apache/APR projects required by Subversion are:
1042 apr-util\libaprutil.dsp, apr\libapr.dsp,
1043 apr-iconv\libapriconv.dsp, apr-util\xml\expat\lib\xml.dsp,
1044 apr-util\uri\gen_uri_delims.dsp (for APR 0.9.x),
1045 apr-iconv\ccs\libapriconv_ccs_modules.dsp, and
1046 apr-iconv\ces\libapriconv_ces_modules.dsp.
1047 * If the server dso modules are being built and tested Apache must not
1048 be running or the copy of the dso modules will fail.
1052 If Apache 2 has been built and the server modules are required then
1053 gen-make.py will already have been run. If the source is from the zip
1054 file, Apache 2 has not been built so gen-make.py must be run:
1056 C:>python gen-make.py -t dsp --with-berkeley-db=db4-win32
1057 --with-openssl=..\openssl-0.9.7f --with-zlib=..\zlib
1058 --with-libintl=..\svn-win32-libintl
1060 Then build subversion:
1062 C:>msdev subversion_msvc.dsw /USEENV /MAKE "__ALL_TESTS__ - Win32 Release"
1065 Or, with Visual C++.NET 2002, 2003, 2005:
1067 C:>devenv subversion_vcnet.sln /build "Release" /project "__ALL_TESTS__"
1070 Or, with Visual C++ Express 2005:
1072 C:>msbuild subversion_vcnet.sln /t:__ALL_TESTS__ /p:Configuration=Release
1075 The binaries have now been built.
1077 E.5 Packaging the binaries
1079 You now need to copy the binaries ready to make the release zip
1080 file. You also need to do this to run the tests as the new binaries
1081 need to be in your path. You can use the build/win32/make_dist.py
1082 script in the Subversion source directory to do that.
1084 [TBD: Describe how to do this. Note dependencies on zip, jar, doxygen.]
1086 E.6 Testing the Binaries
1087 [TBD: It's been a long, long while since it was necessary to move
1088 binaries around for testing. win-tests.py does that automagically.
1089 Fix this section accordingly, and probably reorder, putting
1090 the packaging at the end.]
1092 The build process creates the binary test programs but it does not
1093 copy the client tests into the release test area.
1096 C:>mkdir Release\subversion\tests\cmdline
1097 C:>xcopy /S /Y subversion\tests\cmdline Release\subversion\tests\cmdline
1099 If the server dso modules have been built then copy the dso files and
1100 dlls into the Apache modules directory.
1102 C:>copy Release\subversion\mod_dav_svn\mod_dav_svn.so "%APACHEDIR%"\modules
1103 C:>copy Release\subversion\mod_authz_svn\mod_authz_svn.so
1104 "%APACHEDIR%"\modules
1105 C:>copy svn-win32-%VER%\bin\intl.dll "%APACHEDIR%\bin"
1106 C:>copy svn-win32-%VER%\bin\iconv.dll "%APACHEDIR%\bin"
1107 C:>copy svn-win32-%VER%\bin\libdb42.dll "%APACHEDIR%\bin"
1110 Put the svn-win32-trunk\bin directory at the start of your path so
1111 you run the newly built binaries and not another version you might
1114 Then run the client tests:
1116 C:>PATH=%DRIVE%:\SVN\svn-win32-%VER%\bin;%PATH%
1118 C:>python win-tests.py -c -r -v
1120 If the server dso modules were built configure Apache to use the
1121 mod_dav_svn and mod_authz_svn modules by making sure these lines appear
1122 uncommented in httpd.conf:
1124 LoadModule dav_module modules/mod_dav.so
1125 LoadModule dav_fs_module modules/mod_dav_fs.so
1126 LoadModule dav_svn_module modules/mod_dav_svn.so
1127 LoadModule authz_svn_module modules/mod_authz_svn.so
1129 And further down the file add location directives to point to the
1130 test repositories. Change the paths to the SVN directory you created
1131 (paths should be on one line even if wrapped here):
1133 <Location /svn-test-work/repositories>
1135 SVNParentPath C:/SVN/src-trunk/Release/subversion/tests/cmdline/
1136 svn-test-work/repositories
1139 <Location /svn-test-work/local_tmp/repos>
1141 SVNPath c:/SVN/src-trunk/Release/subversion/tests/cmdline/
1142 svn-test-work/local_tmp/repos
1145 Then restart Apache and run the tests:
1147 C:>python win-tests.py -c -r -v -u http://localhost
1150 III. BUILDING A SUBVERSION SERVER
1151 ============================
1153 Subversion has two servers you can choose from: svnserve and
1154 Apache. svnserve is a small, lightweight server program that is
1155 automatically compiled when you build Subversion's source. Apache
1156 is a more heavyweight HTTP server, but tends to have more features.
1158 This section primarily focuses on how to build Apache and the
1159 accompanying mod_dav_svn server module for it. If you plan to use
1160 svnserve instead, jump right to section E for a quick explanation.
1163 A. Setting Up Apache
1166 (Following the BOOTSTRAPPING FROM RPM procedures above will install and
1167 build the latest Subversion server for Linux RedHat 7.1, 7.2, and PPC
1168 Linux systems *IF* the apache-devel-2.0.41 or greater package is already
1169 installed when the SUBVERSION RPM is built.)
1172 1. Obtaining and Installing Apache 2
1174 Subversion tries to compile against the latest released version
1175 of Apache httpd 2.X. The easiest thing for you to do is download
1176 a source tarball of the latest release and unpack that.
1179 ****************************************************************
1180 ** IMPORTANT ISSUE ABOUT APACHE VERSIONS: READ THIS. **
1182 ****************************************************************
1184 | First, be sure to read the APR version warning box, back in |
1185 | section I.C.1, which explains that APR 0.9.x and 1.X are |
1186 | binary-incompatible. |
1188 | Apache HTTPD 2.0 uses APR 0.9.x. |
1189 | Apache HTTPD 2.2 uses APR 1.2.x. |
1191 | We recommend using the latest Apache. However, whatever |
1192 | version you choose, you *must* ensure that Subversion |
1193 | and Apache are using the same version of APR. If you don't, |
1194 | things will segfault and break. |
1195 |______________________________________________________________|
1198 If you have questions about the Apache httpd 2.0 build, please consult
1199 the httpd install documentation:
1201 http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/install.html
1203 At the top of the httpd tree:
1206 $ ./configure --enable-dav --enable-so --enable-maintainer-mode
1208 The first arg says to build mod_dav.
1210 The second arg says to enable shared module support which is needed
1211 for a typical compile of mod_dav_svn (see below).
1213 The third arg says to include debugging information. If you
1214 built Subversion with --enable-maintainer-mode, then you should
1215 do the same for Apache; there can be problems if one was
1216 compiled with debugging and the other without.
1218 Note: if you have multiple db versions installed on your system,
1219 Apache might link to a different one than Subversion, causing
1220 failures when accessing the repository through Apache. To prevent
1221 this from happening, you have to tell Apache which db version to
1222 use and where to find db. Add --with-dbm=db4 and
1223 --with-berkeley-db=/usr/local/BerkeleyDB.4.2 to the configure
1224 line. Make sure this is the same db as the one Subversion uses.
1225 This note assumes you have installed Berkeley DB 4.2.52
1226 at its default locations. For more info about the db requirement,
1229 You may also want to include other modules in your build. Add
1230 --enable-ssl to turn on SSL support, and --enable-deflate to turn on
1231 compression support, for example. Consult the Apache documentation
1234 All instructions below assume you configured Apache to install
1235 in its default location, /usr/local/apache2/; substitute
1236 appropriately if you chose some other location.
1238 Compile and install apache:
1240 $ make && make install
1243 B. Making and Installing the Subversion Apache Server Module
1244 ---------------------------------------------------------
1246 Go back into your subversion working copy and run ./autogen.sh if
1247 you need to. Then, assuming Apache httpd 2.0 is installed in the
1248 standard location, run:
1252 Note: do *not* configure subversion with "--disable-shared"!
1253 mod_dav_svn *must* be built as a shared library, and it will
1254 look for other libsvn_*.so libraries on your system.
1256 If you see a warning message that the build of mod_dav_svn is
1257 being skipped, this may be because you have Apache httpd 2.X
1258 installed in a non-standard location. You can use the
1259 "--with-apxs=" option to locate the apxs script:
1261 $ ./configure --with-apxs=/usr/local/apache2/bin/apxs
1263 Note: it *is* possible to build mod_dav_svn as a static library
1264 and link it directly into Apache. Possible, but painful. Stick
1265 with the shared library for now; if you can't, then ask.
1267 $ rm /usr/local/lib/libsvn*
1269 If you have old subversion libraries sitting on your system,
1270 libtool will link them instead of the `fresh' ones in your tree.
1271 Remove them before building subversion.
1273 $ make clean && make && make install
1275 After the make install, the Subversion shared libraries are in
1276 /usr/local/lib/. mod_dav_svn.so should be installed in
1277 /usr/local/apache2/modules/.
1280 Section II.E explains how to build the server on Windows.
1283 C. Configuring Apache for Subversion
1284 ---------------------------------
1286 The following section is an abbreviated version of the
1287 information in the Subversion Book
1288 (http://svnbook.red-bean.com). Please read chapter 6 for more
1291 The following assumes you have already created a repository.
1292 For documentation on how to do that, see README.
1294 The following also assumes that you have modified
1295 /usr/local/apache2/conf/httpd.conf to reflect your setup.
1296 At a minimum you should look at the User, Group and ServerName
1297 directives. Full details on setting up apache can be found at:
1298 http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/
1300 First, your httpd.conf needs to load the mod_dav_svn module.
1301 Subversion's 'make install' target should automatically add this
1302 line for you. But if apache gives you an error like "Unknown
1303 DAV provider: svn", then you may want to verify that this line
1304 exists in your httpd.conf:
1306 LoadModule dav_svn_module modules/mod_dav_svn.so
1308 NOTE: if you built mod_dav as a dynamic module as well, make sure
1309 the above line appears after the one that loads mod_dav.so.
1311 Next, add this to the *bottom* of your httpd.conf:
1313 <Location /svn/repos>
1315 SVNPath /absolute/path/to/repository
1318 This will give anyone unrestricted access to the repository. If
1319 you want limited access, read or write, you add these lines to
1323 AuthName "Subversion repository"
1324 AuthUserFile /my/svn/user/passwd/file
1328 a) For a read/write restricted repository:
1332 b) For a write restricted repository:
1334 <LimitExcept GET PROPFIND OPTIONS REPORT>
1338 c) For separate restricted read and write access:
1340 AuthGroupFile /my/svn/group/file
1342 <LimitExcept GET PROPFIND OPTIONS REPORT>
1343 Require group svn_committers
1346 <Limit GET PROPFIND OPTIONS REPORT>
1347 Require group svn_committers
1348 Require group svn_readers
1351 These are only a few simple examples. For a complete tutorial
1352 on Apache access control, please consider taking a look at the
1353 tutorials found under "Security" on the following page:
1354 http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/misc/tutorials.html
1356 In order for 'svn cp' to work (which is actually implemented as a
1357 DAV COPY command), mod_dav needs to be able to determine the
1358 hostname of the server. A standard way of doing this is to use
1359 Apache's ServerName directive to set the server's hostname. Edit
1360 your /usr/local/apache2/conf/httpd.conf to include:
1362 ServerName svn.myserver.org
1364 If you are using virtual hosting through Apache's NameVirtualHost
1365 directive, you may need to use the ServerAlias directive to specify
1366 additional names that your server is known by.
1368 If you have configured mod_deflate to be in the server, you can enable
1369 compression support for your repository by adding the following line
1370 to your Location block:
1372 SetOutputFilter DEFLATE
1375 NOTE: If you are unfamiliar with an Apache directive, or not exactly
1376 sure about what it does, don't hesitate to look it up in the
1377 documentation: http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/mod/directives.html.
1379 NOTE: Make sure that the user 'nobody' (or whatever UID the
1380 httpd process runs as) has permission to read and write the
1381 Berkeley DB files! This is a very common problem.
1384 D. Running and Testing
1389 $ /usr/local/apache2/bin/apachectl stop
1390 $ /usr/local/apache2/bin/apachectl start
1392 Check /usr/local/apache2/logs/error_log to make sure it started
1395 Try doing a network checkout from the repository:
1397 $ svn co http://localhost/svn/repos wc
1399 The most common reason this might fail is permission problems
1400 reading the repository db files. If the checkout fails, make
1401 sure that the httpd process has permission to read and write to
1402 the repository. You can see all of mod_dav_svn's complaints in
1403 the Apache error logfile, /usr/local/apache2/logs/error_log.
1405 To run the regression test suite for networked Subversion, see
1406 the instructions in subversion/tests/cmdline/README.
1407 For advice about tracing problems, see "Debugging the server" in
1411 E. Alternative: 'svnserve' and ra_svn
1412 -----------------------------------
1414 An alternative network layer is libsvn_ra_svn (on the client
1415 side) and the 'svnserve' process on the server. This is a
1416 simple network layer that speaks a custom protocol over plain
1417 TCP (documented in libsvn_ra_svn/protocol):
1419 $ svnserve -d # becomes a background daemon
1420 $ svn checkout svn://localhost/usr/local/svn/repository
1422 You can use the "-r" option to svnserve to set a logical root
1423 for repositories, and the "-R" option to restrict connections to
1424 read-only access. ("Read-only" is a logical term here; svnserve
1425 still needs write access to the database in this mode, but will
1426 not allow commits or revprop changes.)
1428 'svnserve' has built-in CRAM-MD5 authentication (so you can use
1429 non-system accounts), and can also be tunneled over SSH (so you
1430 can use existing system accounts). It's also capable of using
1431 Cyrus SASL if libsasl2 is detected at ./configure time. Please
1432 read chapter 6 in the Subversion Book
1433 (http://svnbook.red-bean.com) for details on these features.
1437 IV. PLATFORM-SPECIFIC ISSUES
1438 ========================
1443 There is an error in the Windows XP TCP/IP stack which causes
1444 corruption in certain cases. This problem is exposed only
1447 The root of the matter is caused by duplicating file handles
1448 between parent and child processes. The httpd Apache group
1449 explains this a lot better:
1451 http://www.apache.org/dist/httpd/binaries/win32/#xpbug
1453 And there's an item about this in the Subversion FAQ:
1455 http://subversion.tigris.org/faq.html#windows-xp-server
1457 The only known workaround for now is to update to Windows XP
1464 [TBD: Describe BDB 4.0.x problem]
1468 V. PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE BINDINGS (PYTHON, PERL, RUBY, JAVA)
1469 ========================================================
1471 For Python, Perl and Ruby bindings, see the file
1473 ./subversion/bindings/swig/INSTALL
1475 For Java bindings, see the file
1477 ./subversion/bindings/javahl/README