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  19 <h2>Building Subversion</h2>
  20
  21 <p>If you want to build Subversion from a source release:</p>
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  25    <li><p>Download the latest tarball distribution from the <a
  26    href="http://subversion.tigris.org/servlets/ProjectDocumentList?folderID=260"
  27    >Source Releases Area</a>.<br />
  28    Windows users should download <tt>.zip</tt> files.  For all other operating
  29    systems, download <tt>.tar.gz</tt> or <tt>.tar.bz2</tt> files.</p></li>
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  31    <li><p>Build and install it according to the instructions in the
  32    <a href="http://svn.collab.net/repos/svn/trunk/INSTALL">INSTALL</a>
  33    file in the top level of the distribution.  You will end up with a
  34    'svn' binary in the subversion/clients/cmdline/ directory (or
  35    installed in /usr/local/bin/, if you ran 'make install'.)</p></li>
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  39 <p>Now you have the latest released version of Subversion installed.
  40 Read the <a href="http://svnbook.red-bean.com">Subversion Book</a> to
  41 learn how to use Subversion, and to see how it differs from CVS.</p>
  42
  43 <p>If you want stability, you can stop here, and just upgrade as new
  44 releases come out.  If you prefer to stay current with Subversion
  45 development, then use your newly-installed Subversion client to check
  46 out a working copy of the master sources:</p>
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  48 <pre>
  49    $ svn co http://svn.collab.net/repos/svn/trunk subversion
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  52 <p>That will get you a new working copy directory named
  53 <code>subversion/</code>, containing the latest sources.  (If you're
  54 behind a proxy or have problems with the checkout, see the <a
  55 href="faq.html#proxy">proxy faq</a>.)  Read the <a
  56 href="http://svn.collab.net/repos/svn/trunk/INSTALL">INSTALL</a> file
  57 for instructions on building in the working copy, which differs
  58 slightly from building a released tarball.</p>
  59
  60 <p>See the <a
  61 href="http://subversion.tigris.org/faq.html">FAQ</a> for known issues
  62 and their workarounds; see the <a
  63 href="http://subversion.tigris.org/project_issues.html">Issue
  64 Tracker</a> for a complete list of known bugs, and instructions on
  65 filing new bugs.</p>
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  70 <h2>Contributing To The Project</h2>
  71
  72 <p>To contribute to Subversion:</p>
  73
  74      <ul>
  75
  76      <li><p>Join the developer community mailing lists: (see the <a
  77       href="/servlets/ProjectMailingListList">Mailing Lists</a>
  78       page.)</p></li>
  79
  80      <li><p>The Subversion project more-or-less abides by the <a
  81       href="http://apr.apache.org/guidelines.html">guidelines</a> used
  82       by the Apache <a href="http://apr.apache.org/">APR project</a>.
  83       Please review these.</p></li>
  84
  85      <li><p>After checking out a copy of the source as described
  86       above, read the <a href="hacking.html">Hacker's Guide to
  87       Subversion</a>.  It describes coding and logging conventions, as
  88       well as how to build from a working copy.</p></li>
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