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E. Building the Latest Source under Windows
III. BUILDING A SUBVERSION SERVER
A. Setting Up Apache
B. Making and Installing the Subversion Server
C. Configuring Apache for Subversion
D. Running and Testing
E. Alternative: 'svnserve' and ra_svn
IV. PLATFORM-SPECIFIC ISSUES
A. Windows XP
B. Mac OS X
V. PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE BINDINGS (PYTHON, PERL, RUBY, JAVA)
I. INTRODUCTION
============
A. Audience
This document is written for people who intend to build
Subversion from source code. Normally, the only people who do
this are Subversion developers and package maintainers.
If neither of these labels fits you, we recommend you find an
appropriate binary package of Subversion and install that.
While the Subversion project doesn't officially release binary
packages, a number of volunteers have made such packages
available for different operating systems. Most Linux and BSD
distributions already have Subversion packages ready to go via
standard packaging channels, and other volunteers have built
'installers' for both Windows and OS X. Visit this page for
package links:
http://subversion.apache.org/packages.html
For those of you who still wish to build from source, Subversion
follows the Unix convention of "./configure && make", but it has
a number of dependencies.
B. Dependency Overview
You'll need the following build tools to compile Subversion:
* autoconf 2.59 or later (Unix only)
* libtool 1.4 or later (Unix only)
* a reasonable C compiler (gcc, Visual Studio, etc.)
Subversion also depends on the following third-party libraries:
* libapr and libapr-util (REQUIRED for client and server)
The Apache Portable Runtime (APR) library provides an
abstraction of operating-system level services such as file
and network I/O, memory management, and so on. It also
provides convenience routines for things like hashtables,
checksums, and argument processing. While it was originally
developed for the Apache HTTP server, APR is a standalone
library used by Subversion and other products. It is a
critical dependency for all of Subversion; it's the layer
that allows Subversion clients and servers to run on
different operating systems.
* SQLite (REQUIRED for client and server)
Subversion uses SQLite to manage some internal databases.
* libz (REQUIRED for client and server)
Subversion uses zlib for compressing binary differences.
These diff streams are used everywhere -- over the network,
in the repository, and in the client's working copy.
* libserf (OPTIONAL for client)
The Serf library allows the Subversion client to send HTTP
requests. This is necessary if you want your client to access
a repository served by the Apache HTTP server. There is an
alternate 'svnserve' server as well, though, and clients
automatically know how to speak the svnserve protocol.
Thus it's not strictly necessary for your client to be able
to speak HTTP... though we still recommend that your client
be built to speak both HTTP and svnserve protocols.
* OpenSSL (OPTIONAL for client and server)
OpenSSL enables your client to access SSL-encrypted https://
URLs (using libserf) in addition to unencrypted http:// URLs.
To use SSL with Subversion's WebDAV server, Apache needs to be
compiled with OpenSSL as well.
* Berkeley DB (OPTIONAL for client and server)
There are two different repository 'back-end'
implementations. One implementation stores data in a flat
filesystem (known as FSFS); the other implementation stores
data in a Berkeley DB database (known as BDB). When you
create a repository, you have the option of specifying a
storage back-end. The Berkeley DB back-end will only be
available if the BDB libraries are discovered at compile
time.
* libsasl (OPTIONAL for client and server)
If the Cyrus SASL library is detected at compile time, then
the svn client (and svnserve server) will be able to utilize
SASL to do various forms of authentication when speaking the
svnserve protocol.
* Python, Perl, Java, Ruby (OPTIONAL)
Subversion is mostly a collection of C libraries with
well-defined APIs, with a small collection of programs that
use the APIs. If you want to build Subversion API bindings
for other languages, you need to have those languages
available at build time.
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using "--with-libs".
Under Windows, you can specify the paths to these libraries by
passing the options --with-zlib and --with-openssl to gen-make.py.
### Is that right? In-tree build of Neon was disabled in r875974.
This may now apply to Serf, or else gen-make.py should be
updated to remove such options.
c. Using OpenSSL on the Apache server
You can also add support for these features to an Apache httpd
server to be used for Subversion using the same support libraries.
The Subversion build system will not provide them, however. You
add them by specifying parameters to the "./configure" script of
the Apache Server instead.
For getting SSL on your server, you would add the "--enable-ssl"
or "--with-ssl=/path/to/lib" option to Apache's "./configure"
script. Apache enables zlib support by default, but you can
specify a nonstandard location for the library with the
"--with-z=/path/to/dir" option. Consult the Apache documentation
for more details, and for other modules you may wish to install
to enhance your Subversion server.
If you don't already have it, you can get a copy of OpenSSL,
including instructions for building and packaging on both Unix
systems and Windows, at:
http://www.openssl.org/
7. Berkeley DB 4.X (OPTIONAL)
Berkeley DB is needed to build a Subversion server that supports
the BDB repository filesystem, or to access a BDB repository on
local disk. If you will only use the FSFS repository filesystem,
or if you are building a Subversion client that will only speak
to remote (networked) repositories, you don't need it.
The current recommended version is 4.4.20 or newer, which brings
auto-recovery functionality to the Berkeley DB database
environment.
If you must use an older version of Berkeley DB, we *strongly*
recommend using 4.3 or 4.2 over the 4.1 or 4.0 versions. Not
only are these significantly faster and more stable, but they
also enable Subversion repositories to automatically clean up
database journal files to save disk space.
You'll need Berkeley DB installed on your system. You can
get it from:
http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/products/berkeley-db/index.html
If you have Berkeley DB installed in a place not searched by default
for includes and libraries, add something like this:
--with-berkeley-db=db.h:/usr/local/include/db4.7:/usr/local/lib/db4.7:db-4.7
to your `configure' switches, and the build process will use the
Berkeley DB header and library in the named directories. You may
need to use a different path, of course. Note that in order for
the detection to succeed, the dynamic linker must be able to find
the libraries at configure time.
If you are on the Windows platform and want to build Subversion,
a precompiled version of the Berkeley DB library is available for
download at the Subversion web site "Documents & files" area:
http://subversion.tigris.org/servlets/ProjectDocumentList?folderID=688
Look in the "Releases > Windows > Windows BDB" section.
8. Cyrus SASL library (OPTIONAL)
If the Simple Authentication and Security Layer (SASL) library
is detected on your system, then the Subversion client and
svnserve server can utilize its abilities for various forms of
authentication. To learn more about SASL or to get the source
code, visit:
http://freshmeat.net/projects/cyrussasl/
9. Apache Web Server 2.X (OPTIONAL)
(http://httpd.apache.org/download.cgi)
The Apache httpd server is one of two methods to make your Subversion
repository available over a network - the other is a custom server
program called svnserve, which requires no extra software packages.
Building Subversion, the Apache server, and the modules that Apache
needs to communicate with Subversion are complicated enough that there
is a whole section at the end of this document that describes how it
is done: See section III for details.
10. Python 2.5 or newer (http://www.python.org/) (OPTIONAL)
If you want to run "make check" or build from the latest source
under Unix as described in section II.B and III.D, install
Python 2.5 or higher on your system. The majority of the test
suite is written in Python, as is part of Subversion's build
system.
11. Perl 5.8 or newer (Windows only) (OPTIONAL)
To build Subversion under any of the MS Windows platforms, you
will also need Perl 5.8 or newer to run apr-util's w32locatedb.pl
script.
12. MASM 6 or newer (Windows only, OPTIONAL)
The Windows build scripts for Subversion can use the Microsoft
Macro Assembler (MASM) to build an optimized version of the ZLib
library. Make sure that the version of MASM you use is compatible
with the C compiler. If you're using MSVC 6, and don't have MASM 6,
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http://subversion.apache.org/download/
Unpack it, and use the standard GNU procedure to compile:
$ ./configure
$ make
# make install
You can also run the full test suite by running 'make check'.
2. Building from an RPM
If you are using Linux (or any OS that can use RPM) then another
possibility is to download the binary RPM from the
http://summersoft.fay.ar.us/pub/subversion directory.
Currently only Linux on the i386 platform is supported
using this method. You might also require additional RPMS
(which can be found in the above mentioned directory) to use the
subversion RPM depending on what packages you already have installed:
subversion*.i386.rpm
apache*.i386.rpm (Version 2.0.49 or greater)
db*.i386.rpm (Version 4.0.14 or greater; version 4.3.27 or
4.2.52 is preferred however)
expat (Comes with RedHat)
After downloading, install it (as root user):
# rpm -ivh subversion*.386.rpm (add other packages as necessary)
Note: For an easy way to generate a new version of the RPM
source and binary package from the latest source code you
just checked out, see the packages/rpm/README file for a
one-line build procedure.
B. Building the Latest Source under Unix
-------------------------------------
These instructions assume you have already installed Subversion
and checked out a working copy of Subversion's own code --
either the latest /trunk code, or some branch or tag. You also
need to have already installed whatever prerequisites that
version of Subversion requires (if you haven't, the ./configure
step should complain).
You can discard the directory created by the tarball; you're
about to build the latest, greatest Subversion client. This is
the procedure Subversion developers use.
First off, if you have any Subversion libraries lying around
from previous 'make installs', clean them up first!
# rm -f /usr/local/lib/libsvn*
# rm -f /usr/local/lib/libapr*
# rm -f /usr/local/lib/libexpat*
# rm -f /usr/local/lib/libserf*
Start the process by running "autogen.sh":
$ sh ./autogen.sh
This script will make sure you have all the necessary components
available to build Subversion. If any are missing, you will be
told where to get them from. (See the 'Build Requirements' in
section I.)
Note: if the command "autoconf" on your machine does not run
autoconf 2.59 or later, but you do have a new enough autoconf
available, then you can specify the correct one with the
AUTOCONF variable. (The AUTOHEADER variable is similar.) This
may be required on Debian GNU/Linux, where "autoconf" is
actually a Perl script that attempts to guess which version is
required -- because of the interaction between Subversion's and
APR's configuration systems, the Perl script may get it wrong.
So for example, you might need to do:
$ AUTOCONF=autoconf2.59 sh ./autogen.sh
Once you've prepared the working copy by running autogen.sh,
just follow the usual configuration and build procedure:
$ ./configure
$ make
# make install
(Optionally, you might want to pass --enable-maintainer-mode to
the ./configure script. This enables debugging symbols in your
binaries (among other things) and most Subversion developers use it.)
Since the resulting binary depends on shared libraries, the
destination library directory must be identified in your
operating system's library search path. That is in either
/etc/ld.so.conf or $LD_LIBRARY_PATH for Linux systems and in
/etc/rc.conf for FreeBSD, followed by a run of the 'ldconfig'
program. Check your system documentation for details. By
identifying the destination directory, Subversion will be able
to dynamically load repository access plugins. If you try to do
a checkout and see an error like:
subversion/libsvn_ra/ra_loader.c:209: (apr_err=170000)
svn: Unrecognized URL scheme 'https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/subversion/trunk'
It probably means that the dynamic loader/linker can't find all
of the libsvn_* libraries.
C. Building under Unix in Different Directories
--------------------------------------------
It is possible to configure and build Subversion on Unix in a
directory other than the working copy. For example
$ svn co https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/subversion/trunk svn
$ cd svn
$ # get SQLite amalgamation if required
$ chmod +x autogen.sh
$ ./autogen.sh
$ mkdir ../obj
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http://httpd.apache.org/download.cgi (required for running the
tests). Only needed for testing the server dso modules and if
you are using Visual Studio 6.
Note that if you are not using Visual Studio 6 (and you want to
run and test the server modules) then you must rebuild Apache
from source -- do not use the stock MSI since mixing C runtime
libraries is not supported.
* [Optional] Berkeley DB for backend support of the server
components -- versions 4.3.27 and 4.4.20 are available from
http://subversion.tigris.org/servlets/ProjectDocumentList?folderID=688
as db-4.3.27-win32.zip and db-4.4.20-win32.zip.
For more information see Section I.5.
* [Optional] Openssl 0.9.7f or higher can be obtained from
http://www.openssl.org/source/openssl-0.9.7f.tar.gz
* [Optional] A modified version of GNU libintl, called
svn-win32-libintl.zip, can be used for displaying localized
messages. Available at:
http://subversion.tigris.org/servlets/ProjectDocumentList?folderID=2627
* [Optional] GNU gettext for generating message catalog (.mo)
files from message translations. You can get the latest
binaries from http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/. You'll need the
binaries (gettext-0.14.1-bin.zip) and dependencies
(gettext-0.14.1-dep.zip).
* [Optional] An assembler, e.g., MASM32 from http://www.masm32.com/
or nasm which is available from
http://www.nasm.us/pub/nasm/releasebuilds/?C=M;O=D
E.2 Notes
The Serf library supports secure connections with OpenSSL and
on-the-wire compression with zlib. If you want to use the
secure connections feature, you should pass the option
"--with-openssl" to the gen-make.py script. See Section I.11 for
more details.
E.3 Preparation
This section describes how to unpack the files to make a build tree.
* Make a directory SVN and cd into it.
* Either checkout Subversion:
svn co https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/subversion/trunk src-trunk
or unpack the zip file distribution and rename the directory to
src-trunk.
* Install Visual Studio Environment. You either have to tell the
installer to register environment variables or run VCVARS32.BAT
before building anything. If you are using a newer Visual Studio,
use the 'Visual Studio 200x Command Prompt' on the Start menu.
* Install and register a recent Windows Core SDK if you are using
Visual Studio 6. This is a quote from the Microsoft February 2003
SDK documentation:
"To register the SDK bin, include, and library directories with
Microsoft Visual Studio® version 6.0 and Visual Studio .NET,
click Start, point to All Programs, point to Microsoft Platform
SDK February 2003, point to Visual Studio Registration, and then
click Register PSDK Directories with Visual Studio. This
registration process places the SDK bin, include, and library
directories at the beginning of the search paths, which ensures
that the latest headers and libraries are used when building
applications in the IDE. Note that for Visual Studio 6.0
integration to succeed, Visual Studio 6.0 must run at least once
before you select Register PSDK Directories with Visual
Studio. Also note that when this option is run, the IDEs should
not be running."
* Install Python and add it to your path
* Install Perl (it should add itself to the path)
* Copy AWK (awk95.exe) to awk.exe (e.g. SVN\awk\awk.exe) and add
the directory containing it (e.g. SVN\awk) to the path.
* Install Apache 2 using the msi file if you are going to test the
server dso modules and are using Visual Studio 6. You must build
and install it from source if you are not using Visual Studio 6 and
want to build and/or test the server modules.
* If you checked out Subversion from the repository then install the serf
sources into SVN\src-trunk\serf.
* If you want BDB backend support, extract the Berkeley DB files
into SVN\src-trunk\db4-win32. It's a good idea to add
SVN\src-trunk\db4-win32\bin to your PATH, so that Subversion can find
the Berkeley DB DLLs.
[NOTE: This binary package of Berkeley DB is provided for
convenience only. Please don't address questions about
Berkeley DB that aren't directly related to using Subversion
to the project mailing list.]
If you build Berkeley DB from the source, you will have to copy
the file db-x.x.x\build_win32\db.h to
SVN\src-trunk\db4-win32\include, and all the import libraries to
SVN\src-trunk\db4-win32\lib. Again, the DLLs should be somewhere in
your path.
* If you want to build the server modules, extract Apache source into
SVN\httpd-2.x.x.
* If you are building from a checkout of Subversion, and you are NOT
building Apache, then you will need the APR libraries. Depending
on how you got your version of APR, either:
- Extract the APR, APR-util and APR-iconv source distributions into
SVN\apr, SVN\apr-util, and SVN\apr-iconv respectively.
Or:
- Extract the apr, apr-util and apr-iconv directories from the
srclib folder in the Apache httpd source into SVN\apr,
SVN\apr-util, and SVN\apr-iconv respectively.
* Extract the ZLib sources into SVN\zlib if you are not using the zlib
included in the dependencies zip file.
* If you want secure connection (https) client support, extract openssl
into SVN\openssl-x.x.x
* If you want localized message support, extract svn-win32-libintl.zip
into SVN\svn-win32-libintl and extract gettext-x.x.x-bin.zip and
gettext-x.x.x-dep.zip into SVN\gettext-x.x.x-bin.
Add SVN\gettext-x.x.x-bin\bin to your path.
* [Optional] Extract MASM32 (only the ML.EXE and ML.ERR files) into
SVN\asm (or extract nasm into SVN\asm) and put it in your path.
E.4 Building the Binaries
To build the binaries either follow the instructions here or use
build\win32\vc6-build.bat.in after editing its default paths to match
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above this has been done for you).
* If you are using Visual Studio .NET change -t dsw into -t vcproj and
add the --vsnet-version=200x option on the gen-make.py command.
In this case you will also have to distribute the C runtime dll with
the binaries. Also, since Apache/APR do not provide .vcproj files,
you will need to convert the Apache/APR .dsp files to .vcproj files
with Visual Studio before building -- just open the Apache .dsw file
and answer 'Yes To All' when the conversion dialog pops up, or you
can open the individual .dsp files and convert them one at a time.
The Apache/APR projects required by Subversion are:
apr-util\libaprutil.dsp, apr\libapr.dsp,
apr-iconv\libapriconv.dsp, apr-util\xml\expat\lib\xml.dsp,
apr-util\uri\gen_uri_delims.dsp (for APR 0.9.x),
apr-iconv\ccs\libapriconv_ccs_modules.dsp, and
apr-iconv\ces\libapriconv_ces_modules.dsp.
* If the server dso modules are being built and tested Apache must not
be running or the copy of the dso modules will fail.
C:>cd src-%DIR%
If Apache 2 has been built and the server modules are required then
gen-make.py will already have been run. If the source is from the zip
file, Apache 2 has not been built so gen-make.py must be run:
C:>python gen-make.py -t dsp --with-berkeley-db=db4-win32
--with-openssl=..\openssl-0.9.7f --with-zlib=..\zlib
--with-libintl=..\svn-win32-libintl
Then build subversion:
C:>msdev subversion_msvc.dsw /USEENV /MAKE "__ALL_TESTS__ - Win32 Release"
C:>cd ..
Or, with Visual C++.NET 2002, 2003, 2005:
C:>devenv subversion_vcnet.sln /build "Release" /project "__ALL_TESTS__"
C:>cd ..
Or, with Visual C++ Express 2005:
C:>msbuild subversion_vcnet.sln /t:__ALL_TESTS__ /p:Configuration=Release
C:>cd ..
The binaries have now been built.
E.5 Packaging the binaries
You now need to copy the binaries ready to make the release zip
file. You also need to do this to run the tests as the new binaries
need to be in your path. You can use the build/win32/make_dist.py
script in the Subversion source directory to do that.
[TBD: Describe how to do this. Note dependencies on zip, jar, doxygen.]
E.6 Testing the Binaries
[TBD: It's been a long, long while since it was necessary to move
binaries around for testing. win-tests.py does that automagically.
Fix this section accordingly, and probably reorder, putting
the packaging at the end.]
The build process creates the binary test programs but it does not
copy the client tests into the release test area.
C:>cd src-%DIR%
C:>mkdir Release\subversion\tests\cmdline
C:>xcopy /S /Y subversion\tests\cmdline Release\subversion\tests\cmdline
If the server dso modules have been built then copy the dso files and
dlls into the Apache modules directory.
C:>copy Release\subversion\mod_dav_svn\mod_dav_svn.so "%APACHEDIR%"\modules
C:>copy Release\subversion\mod_authz_svn\mod_authz_svn.so
"%APACHEDIR%"\modules
C:>copy svn-win32-%VER%\bin\intl.dll "%APACHEDIR%\bin"
C:>copy svn-win32-%VER%\bin\iconv.dll "%APACHEDIR%\bin"
C:>copy svn-win32-%VER%\bin\libdb42.dll "%APACHEDIR%\bin"
C:>cd ..
Put the svn-win32-trunk\bin directory at the start of your path so
you run the newly built binaries and not another version you might
have installed.
Then run the client tests:
C:>PATH=%DRIVE%:\SVN\svn-win32-%VER%\bin;%PATH%
C:>cd src-%DIR%
C:>python win-tests.py -c -r -v
If the server dso modules were built configure Apache to use the
mod_dav_svn and mod_authz_svn modules by making sure these lines appear
uncommented in httpd.conf:
LoadModule dav_module modules/mod_dav.so
LoadModule dav_fs_module modules/mod_dav_fs.so
LoadModule dav_svn_module modules/mod_dav_svn.so
LoadModule authz_svn_module modules/mod_authz_svn.so
And further down the file add location directives to point to the
test repositories. Change the paths to the SVN directory you created
(paths should be on one line even if wrapped here):
<Location /svn-test-work/repositories>
DAV svn
SVNParentPath C:/SVN/src-trunk/Release/subversion/tests/cmdline/
svn-test-work/repositories
</Location>
<Location /svn-test-work/local_tmp/repos>
DAV svn
SVNPath c:/SVN/src-trunk/Release/subversion/tests/cmdline/
svn-test-work/local_tmp/repos
</Location>
Then restart Apache and run the tests:
C:>python win-tests.py -c -r -v -u http://localhost
C:>cd ..
III. BUILDING A SUBVERSION SERVER
============================
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the Location block:
AuthType Basic
AuthName "Subversion repository"
AuthUserFile /my/svn/user/passwd/file
And:
a) For a read/write restricted repository:
Require valid-user
b) For a write restricted repository:
<LimitExcept GET PROPFIND OPTIONS REPORT>
Require valid-user
</LimitExcept>
c) For separate restricted read and write access:
AuthGroupFile /my/svn/group/file
<LimitExcept GET PROPFIND OPTIONS REPORT>
Require group svn_committers
</LimitExcept>
<Limit GET PROPFIND OPTIONS REPORT>
Require group svn_committers
Require group svn_readers
</Limit>
These are only a few simple examples. For a complete tutorial
on Apache access control, please consider taking a look at the
tutorials found under "Security" on the following page:
http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/misc/tutorials.html
In order for 'svn cp' to work (which is actually implemented as a
DAV COPY command), mod_dav needs to be able to determine the
hostname of the server. A standard way of doing this is to use
Apache's ServerName directive to set the server's hostname. Edit
your /usr/local/apache2/conf/httpd.conf to include:
ServerName svn.myserver.org
If you are using virtual hosting through Apache's NameVirtualHost
directive, you may need to use the ServerAlias directive to specify
additional names that your server is known by.
If you have configured mod_deflate to be in the server, you can enable
compression support for your repository by adding the following line
to your Location block:
SetOutputFilter DEFLATE
NOTE: If you are unfamiliar with an Apache directive, or not exactly
sure about what it does, don't hesitate to look it up in the
documentation: http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/mod/directives.html.
NOTE: Make sure that the user 'nobody' (or whatever UID the
httpd process runs as) has permission to read and write the
Berkeley DB files! This is a very common problem.
D. Running and Testing
-------------------
Fire up apache 2:
$ /usr/local/apache2/bin/apachectl stop
$ /usr/local/apache2/bin/apachectl start
Check /usr/local/apache2/logs/error_log to make sure it started
up okay.
Try doing a network checkout from the repository:
$ svn co http://localhost/svn/repos wc
The most common reason this might fail is permission problems
reading the repository db files. If the checkout fails, make
sure that the httpd process has permission to read and write to
the repository. You can see all of mod_dav_svn's complaints in
the Apache error logfile, /usr/local/apache2/logs/error_log.
To run the regression test suite for networked Subversion, see
the instructions in subversion/tests/cmdline/README.
For advice about tracing problems, see "Debugging the server" in
http://subversion.apache.org/docs/community-guide/.
E. Alternative: 'svnserve' and ra_svn
-----------------------------------
An alternative network layer is libsvn_ra_svn (on the client
side) and the 'svnserve' process on the server. This is a
simple network layer that speaks a custom protocol over plain
TCP (documented in libsvn_ra_svn/protocol):
$ svnserve -d # becomes a background daemon
$ svn checkout svn://localhost/usr/local/svn/repository
You can use the "-r" option to svnserve to set a logical root
for repositories, and the "-R" option to restrict connections to
read-only access. ("Read-only" is a logical term here; svnserve
still needs write access to the database in this mode, but will
not allow commits or revprop changes.)
'svnserve' has built-in CRAM-MD5 authentication (so you can use
non-system accounts), and can also be tunneled over SSH (so you
can use existing system accounts). It's also capable of using
Cyrus SASL if libsasl2 is detected at ./configure time. Please
read chapter 6 in the Subversion Book
(http://svnbook.red-bean.com) for details on these features.
IV. PLATFORM-SPECIFIC ISSUES
========================
A. Windows XP
----------
There is an error in the Windows XP TCP/IP stack which causes
corruption in certain cases. This problem is exposed only
through ra_dav.
The root of the matter is caused by duplicating file handles
between parent and child processes. The httpd Apache group
explains this a lot better:
http://www.apache.org/dist/httpd/binaries/win32/#xpbug
And there's an item about this in the Subversion FAQ:
http://subversion.apache.org/faq.html#windows-xp-server
The only known workaround for now is to update to Windows XP
SP1 (or higher).
B. Mac OS X
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V. PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE BINDINGS (PYTHON, PERL, RUBY, JAVA)
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For Python, Perl and Ruby bindings, see the file
./subversion/bindings/swig/INSTALL
For Java bindings, see the file
./subversion/bindings/javahl/README
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