Problems installing Subversion

[Haulmark, Chris]

Someone broke the silence: 

> I'm trying to install Subversion on a computer running FreeBSD 4.9,
> with a fully updated Ports tree. There seems to be some kind of
> apr-related problem, though it's not clear why.
> 
> When I first ran portinstall, it installed apr itself, and everything
> ran smoothly with that install, but when it returned to Subversion
> I got
> 
> ---
> ===>   Returning to build of subversion-1.0.8
> ===>  Configuring for subversion-1.0.8
> 
> You select to use`devel/apr' for apr library.
> It seems that `devel/apr' is not properly installed.
> 
> *** Error code 1
> ---
> 
> I checked, and apr does seem to be installed (with the package
> apparently called apr-nothr-gdbm-db4-1.0.0), but trying to re-run
> the Subversion install dies in the same way.
> 
> What's going on? The only thing in UPDATING is talking about
> installing Subversion with Apache2, which I am not doing; I
> couldn't find anything relevant on the mailing lists.

Check in the freebsd-ports mailing list archive.  There's a few days old
thread regarding this including a patch to update your version to
subversion 1.1.0.

I would just do a cvsup to see if Subversion has been updated or not.
If not, use the patch.

> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Jesse Sheidlower
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