Compiling Subversion.

[Gavin Baumanis]

Hi Everyone,

My ultimate goal is to be able to compile Subversion from source code.
And after asking for some help on the SVN mailing lists, Ryan Schmidt suggested that I come across here and have a look at the portfile.
He explained to me that the portfile was "the recipe" for compiling SVN successfully on a Mac.

Of curse the issues for me are;
I am not really a C/C++ developer so don't know the first thing about autogen / configure or make.
(I learnt a loooong time ago. but haven't done any C coding in 20 years.)


I have installed apr, apr-util, neon, serf and sasl all from macports.
(Though I did try and do it from their respective sources too, but hit a snag trying to compile apr.)
I can successfully use MacPorts to install and run Subversion, too.
So it seemed sensible enough that I should be able to take the compile "options" from the portfile and compile SVN... but alas there is still something I am missing, because it doesn't work for me.

So, I am hoping that I will be able to give you all the details of what I am doing and then someone in the know - will be able to point me in the right direction with respect to what I am doing wrong or omitting outright.

sudo port installed - reveals that I have the following installed;
apr @1.4.2_1 (active)
  apr-util @1.3.10_0 (active)
  cyrus-sasl2 @2.1.23_3+kerberos (active)
  db46 @4.6.21_6 (active)
  expat @2.0.1_1 (active)
  gettext @0.18.1.1_2 (active)
  gperf @3.0.4_0 (active)
  libiconv @1.13.1_0 (active)
  ncurses @5.9_0 (active)
  ncursesw @5.8_0 (active)
  neon @0.29.5_0 (active)
  openssl @1.0.0d_0 (active)
  readline @6.2.000_0 (active)
  serf @0.7.1_0 (active)
  sqlite3 @3.7.6_0 (active)
  subversion @1.6.16_0 (active)
  zlib @1.2.5_0 (active)

from MacPorts I got the following configure options, replacing ${prefix} with /opt/local.

--with-berkeley-db=:/opt/local/include/db46:/opt/local/lib/db46:db-4.6 --with-neon=/opt/local --with-apr=/opt/local/bin/apr-1-config --with-apr-util=/opt/local/bin/apu-1-config --without-apxs --mandir=\\\/opt/local/share/man --disable-neon-version-check --with-serf=/opt/local --with-sasl=/opt/local

and I added in the --with-sqlite=/opt/local configure option to ensure I was using the MacPorts version.

So I performed the following;
sudo sh ./authogen.sh
sudo ./configure --with-berkeley-db=:/opt/local/include/db46:/opt/local/lib/db46:db-4.6 --with-neon=/opt/local --with-apr=/opt/local/bin/apr-1-config --with-apr-util=/opt/local/bin/apu-1-config --without-apxs --mandir=\\\/opt/local/share/man --disable-neon-version-check --with-serf=/opt/local --with-sasl=/opt/local --with-sqlite=/opt/local
sudo make
make check 

During make I get errors such as;
subversion/libsvn_diff/diff_file.c: In function ‘output_unified_flush_hunk’:
subversion/libsvn_diff/diff_file.c:1546: warning: format ‘%ld’ expects type ‘long int’, but argument 5 has type ‘long long int’
subversion/libsvn_diff/diff_file.c:1553: warning: format ‘%ld’ expects type ‘long int’, but argument 5 has type ‘long long int’
subversion/libsvn_diff/diff_file.c:1559: warning: format ‘%ld’ expects type ‘long int’, but argument 5 has type ‘long long int’
subversion/libsvn_diff/diff_file.c:1565: warning: format ‘%ld’ expects type ‘long int’, but argument 5 has type ‘long long int’

and others like;
/usr/bin/ranlib: file: .libs/libsvn_subr-1.a(config_win.o) has no symbols

(I have no idea if they are "real" or can simply be ignored.

using; echo $?   provides a return of 0 (zero)


But when I run make check I get 6 failures and it finally exits with;
Running tests in authz_tests.py [37/87]make: *** [check] Error 1

and doesn't perform any of the later tests.

So, now  - I am hoping that someone will be able to point me in the right direction!
Thanks.

Gavin.