Introduction
============
Makefile.svn aids Subversion developers on unix-like systems set up an
SVN development environment without requiring root priviliges. It does
this by fetching Subversion along with many of its dependencies from
the internet and building them using sane defaults suitable for
development (for example, it invokes --enable-maintainer-mode while
compiling Subversion itself). However, indirect dependencies are not
covered; you need OpenSSL installed to get SSL support in neon and
serf for example. Also, it doesn't build all the bindings by default
(javahl for example).

This README only covers basic usage. Please read Makefile.svn for more
details.

Requirements
============
In addition to the usual GNU buildtools including a sane compiler and
GNU autotools, some version of Subversion is required to be in
$PATH. It is used to fetch the desired version of Subversion from the
repository.

Usage
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First, choose a directory $(SVN_DEV) to set up the environment.
For example, $(SVN_DEV) could be the directory "~/svn".
Note that this directory cannot be changed later because the script
hardcodes build and link paths relative to the current working directory.

  $ mkdir $(SVN_DEV)

Now change into this directory and make the Makefile available in it:

  $ cd $(SVN_DEV)
  $ svn checkout https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/subversion/trunk/tools/dev/unix-build
  $ ln -s unix-build/Makefile.svn Makefile

To fetch and build trunk, simply don't pass anything, just run 'make':

  $ cd $(SVN_DEV)
  $ make

Pass the branch you want to build in BRANCH, e.g.
	$ make BRANCH="1.5.x"
You can also pass a tag to build: 
	$ make TAG="1.6.6"
And you can specify a working copy to use, in case you need more
than one working copy of the same branch:
	$ make BRANCH="1.6.x" WC="1.6.x-test2"

When the script has finished fetching and building, it uses
$(SVN_DEV)/prefix to install Subversion libraries and
binaries. $(SVN_DEV)/prefix/svn-trunk (or whatever you choose to
build) will contain the latest Subversion binaries. You can add
$(SVN_DEV)/prefix/svn-trunk/bin to your $PATH to use them:

  $ export PATH="$(SVN_DEV)/prefix/svn-trunk/bin:$PATH"

The Makefile in $(SVN_DEV)/svn-trunk is configured to build with sane
options: while developing Subversion, simply `svn up` to pull the
latest changes, `make` and `make install` to install the binaries in
$(SVN_DEV)/prefix/svn-trunk. This usually works fine. If not, you may
need to use the 'svn-reset' target and recompile everything.

If at any point, you want to recompile any of the packages with the
default configuration in Makefile.svn, use the *-clean and *-reset
target in Makefile.svn before trying to rebuild again. For example:

  $ make svn-clean
  $ make svn-reset
  $ make

Or, if you want to recompile svn and all dependencies:

  $ make clean
  $ make reset
  $ make

If you want to remove everything including the installed binaries effectively
returning to the starting point, use the "nuke" target (BE CAREFUL, this will
remove the 'svn' binary compiled from trunk which you might need to manage
existing working copies):

  $ make nuke

Extended usage
==============
The script can also run Subversion's regression test suite via all
repository backends and RA methods. It generates the necessary
configuration files and starts svnserve and httpd daemons
automatically on non-privileged ports. The default test target to test
everything is "svn-check".

Notes
=====
The script currently doesn't build Ctypes Python bindings.