Subversion 1.4.2 upgradeEdit

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These notes were made during the upgrade from Subversion version 1.4.0 to the new version 1.4.2.

Upgrade of local install

# get and extract sources
wget http://subversion.tigris.org/downloads/subversion-1.4.2.tar.bz2
wget http://subversion.tigris.org/downloads/subversion-deps-1.4.2.tar.bz2
tar xjvf subversion-1.4.2.tar.bz2
tar xjvf subversion-deps-1.4.2.tar.bz2
cd subversion-1.4.2

# remove old copies of installed libraries
sudo rm -f /usr/local/lib/libsvn*
sudo rm -f /usr/local/lib/libapr*
sudo rm -f /usr/local/lib/libexpat*
sudo rm -f /usr/local/lib/libneon*

# build, test, install
./configure --with-ssl
make
make check
sudo make install

On running, get this error:

$ svn --version
dyld: Library not loaded: /usr/local/apr/lib/libaprutil-0.0.dylib
  Referenced from: /usr/local/bin/svn
  Reason: image not found
Trace/BPT trap

I think from now on I am going to build statically linked copies of Subversion.

sudo rm -f /usr/local/lib/libsvn*
sudo rm -f /usr/local/lib/libapr*
sudo rm -f /usr/local/lib/libexpat*
sudo rm -f /usr/local/lib/libneon*
make clean
./configure --enable-all-static --with-ssl
make
make check

That didn’t work, looks like --enable-all-static is not enough; lots of libtool warnings printed during the build:

libtool: link: warning: complete static linking is impossible in this configuration

And many test failures in the make check. Evidently it will be necessary to manually perform static builds for the dependent libraries prior to proceeding with the build.

I’ve uploaded the scripts I used to perform the static build here:

These are modifications of the scripts by D.J. Hagberg who maintains static builds of Subversion for various platforms.

The resulting static builds work, but I wanted to get my non-static build working as well:

cd ..
wget http://mirrors.hostalia.com/apache/apr/apr-1.2.7.tar.bz2
tar xjvf apr-1.2.7.tar.bz2
mv apr-1.2.7 apr
cd apr
./buildconf && ./configure && make && make check
sudo make install
cd ..
wget http://mirrors.hostalia.com/apache/apr/apr-util-1.2.7.tar.bz2
tar xjvf apr-util-1.2.7.tar.bz2
mv apr-util-1.2.7 apr-util
cd apr-util
./buildconf
./configure --with-apr=/usr/local/apr/bin/apr-1-config
make

# for some reason, make check will fail unless you install first
sudo make install
make check
cd ..
rm -rf apr apr-util

# clean out subversion and start again
rm -rf subversion-1.4.2
tar xjvf subversion-1.4.2.tar.bz2
tar xjvf subversion-deps-1.4.2.tar.bz2
cd subversion-1.4.2
rm -r apr apr-util
./configure --with-apr=/usr/local/apr/bin/apr-1-config       \
            --with-apr-util=/usr/local/apr/bin/apu-1-config  \
            --disable-mod-activation                         \
            --with-ssl
make && make check
sudo make install

Upgrade of remote install

# run in a screen session in case we lose the connection
screen

# get apr source see http://apr.apache.org/download.cgi for your local mirror
wget http://mirrors.hostalia.com/apache/apr/apr-1.2.7.tar.bz2
tar xjvf apr-1.2.7.tar.bz2

# rename directory because apr-util will later look for source in "apr"
mv apr-1.2.7 apr
cd apr

# the actual apr build
./buildconf
./configure
make
make check
sudo make install
cd ..

# now for apr-util
wget http://mirrors.hostalia.com/apache/apr/apr-util-1.2.7.tar.bz2
tar xjvf apr-util-1.2.7.tar.bz2
mv apr-util-1.2.7 apr-util
cd apr-util
./buildconf
./configure --with-apr=/usr/local/apr/bin/apr-1-config
make
make check
sudo make install
cd ..
rm -rf apr apr-util

# now for Subversion
wget http://subversion.tigris.org/downloads/subversion-1.4.2.tar.bz2
wget http://subversion.tigris.org/downloads/subversion-deps-1.4.2.tar.bz2
tar xjvf subversion-1.4.2.tar.bz2
tar xjvf subversion-deps-1.4.2.tar.bz2
cd subversion-1.4.2

# just in case, to be sure that Subversion uses the just-built apr and apr-util
rm -r apr apr-util

# the actual build
sudo chkconfig svn off
sudo rm -f /usr/local/lib/libsvn*
./configure --with-apr=/usr/local/apr/bin/apr-1-config      \
            --with-apr-util=/usr/local/apr/bin/apu-1-config \
            --disable-mod-activation                        \
            --with-ssl
make
make check
sudo make install

# re-open for business
sudo chkconfig svn on
netstat -anp | grep LISTEN | grep 3690
exit

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