Installing Subversion on OSX from Source

From SnOwy - Ed's Wiki Notebook

• subversion is now a part of apache
• current version is 1.6.12
• requires APR
  • got APR from apr.apache.org (apache portable runtime)
  • current version is 1.4.2
  • ./configure ... OK
  • make ... OK
  • sudo make install ... OK
  • done APR
• requires SQLite
  • got from www.sqlite.org
  • got 3.6.23.1
  • ./configure ... OK
  • make ... OK
  • sudo make install ... OK
• requires libz
  • could not find libz source code -- found these though...
    • /usr/lib/libz.1.1.3.dylib
    • /usr/lib/libz.1.2.3.dylib
    • /usr/lib/libz.1.dylib
    • /usr/lib/libz.dylib
• requirements met / ignored.
• ./configure ... OK -- reports missing lib

configure: WARNING: we have configured without BDB filesystem support


You don't seem to have Berkeley DB version 4.0.14 or newer
installed and linked to APR-UTIL.  We have created Makefiles which
will build without the Berkeley DB back-end; your repositories will
use FSFS as the default back-end.  You can find the latest version of
Berkeley DB here:
  http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/products/berkeley-db/index.html

• make ... OK
• sudo make install ... failed