Posts for the month of October 2006

Roll your own subversion

Under Cygwin…

Waiting for an official subversion 1.4 - but until then, I lost my command line svn because Tortoise SVN (awesome BTW) updated my working copy to the new format.

Abbreviated setup (I'm not telling you how to use tar, etc). It's also good idea to disable your virus scanner for a few minutes. Spawning processes under cygwin is painful to start with…

  1. Download both subversion and it's deps. Currently: 
    http://subversion.tigris.org/downloads/subversion-deps-1.4.0.tar.bz2
http://subversion.tigris.org/downloads/subversion-1.4.0.tar.bz2

These are from ​http://subversion.tigris.org/servlets/ProjectDocumentList?folderID=260&expandFolder=74

  1. Extract them both
  2. $ ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/svn14 --enable-all-static --disable-mod-activation
  3. make all
  4. make check

(You can usually just do "make check" but there seems to be a bug where it won't properly build the dependencies)

  1. make install
  2. add to .profile: 
    alias svn14="/usr/local/svn14/bin/svn"

I have done this on two machines now. On both, some symlink stuff failed under one of the python checks. Oh well…