| ====================================== |
| INSTALLING SUBVERSION |
| A Quick Guide |
| ====================================== |
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| $LastChangedDate$ |
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| *** Subversion is alpha code right now. *** |
| |
| "Is Subversion stable enough for me to use for my own projects?" |
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| We think so! Read the full FAQ answer on the website: |
| http://subversion.tigris.org/project_faq.html#stable |
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| Contents: |
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| I. BUILD REQUIREMENTS |
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| II. INSTALLATION |
| A. Bootstrapping from a Tarball or RPM |
| B. Building the Latest Source under Unix |
| C. Building under Unix in Different Directories |
| D. Bootstrapping from a Zip File under Windows |
| 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 |
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| I. BUILD REQUIREMENTS |
| ================== |
| |
| Subversion depends on a number of third party tools and libraries. |
| If you are bootstrapping from a tarball, zipfile or an RPM then |
| you will already have everything you require to get a Subversion |
| client. So long as you don't plan to build a new client from the |
| latest source or to build a Subversion server, you can go directly |
| to section II.A. |
| |
| Otherwise, you need to read the following so that you can determine |
| what other tools and libraries will be required so that Subversion |
| can be built with the set of features you want. |
| |
| On Unix systems, the './configure' script will tell you if you are |
| missing the correct version of any of the required libraries or |
| tools, so if you are in a real hurry to get building, you can skip |
| straight to section II. If you want to gather the pieces you will |
| need before starting out, however, you should read the following. |
| |
| Note: Because previous builds of Subversion may have installed older |
| versions of these libraries, you may want to run some of the cleanup |
| commands described in section II.B before installing the following. |
| |
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| 1. Apache Portable Runtime 0.9.4 (http://apr.apache.org/) |
| |
| Whenever you want to build any part of Subversion, you need the |
| Apache Portable Runtime (APR) and the APR Utility (APRUTIL) |
| libraries. At the time of this writing, there were no official |
| release versions of APR/APRUTIL available, but Subversion tries |
| to stay compatible with the versions bundled within the latest |
| httpd-2.0 release. |
| |
| Therefore, the easiest way to get apr/apr-util is to download |
| the latest release of the httpd source, and use the apr/apr-util |
| trees contained within. |
| |
| $ tar zxvf httpd-2.X.YY.tar.gz |
| $ cd httpd-2.X.YY/srclib |
| $ cp -a apr apr-util /path/to/svn_wc |
| |
| If you already have the APR libraries compiled and do not wish to |
| regenerate them from source code, then Subversion needs to be |
| able to find them. |
| |
| There are a couple of options to "./configure" that tell it where |
| to look for the APR and APRUTIL libraries. By default, it will look |
| for and use the apr-config and apu-config scripts. These scripts |
| provide all the relevant information for the APR and APRUTIL |
| installations. |
| |
| If you want to specify the location of the APR library, you can use |
| the "--with-apr=" option of "./configure". It should be able to find |
| the apr-config script in the standard location under that directory |
| (e.g. ${prefix}/bin). |
| |
| Similarly, you can specify the location of APRUTIL using the |
| "--with-apr-util=" option to "./configure". It will look for the |
| apu-config script relative to that directory. |
| |
| For example, if you want to use the APR libraries you built |
| with the Apache HTTP 2.0 server, you could run: |
| |
| $ ./configure --with-apr=/usr/local/apache2 \ |
| --with-apr-util=/usr/local/apache2 ... |
| |
| If you want Subversion to build the APR libraries from source |
| code as part of the Subversion build process, you can put their |
| source code into the "./apr" and "./apr-util" directories. The |
| Subversion tarball comes with copies of the libraries' source |
| code stored in these subdirectories which you could copy or link |
| to. |
| |
| If you need the latest CVS versions, however, you can use the |
| following two commands. If you run them from the directory where |
| you've checked out Subversion, then the APR source code will be |
| in "./apr" and "./apr-util", where Subversion wants it: |
| |
| $ cvs -d :pserver:anoncvs@cvs.apache.org:/home/cvspublic login |
| (password: 'anoncvs') |
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| $ cvs -d :pserver:anoncvs@cvs.apache.org:/home/cvspublic co apr |
| $ cvs -d :pserver:anoncvs@cvs.apache.org:/home/cvspublic co apr-util |
| |
| The "./apr" and "./apr-util" directories will not be considered |
| if the search for apr-config and apu-config scripts is successful. |
| |
| NOTE: On Windows you will also need apr-iconv. Check it out next to |
| the apr and apr-util directories: |
| |
| $ cvs -d :pserver:anoncvs@cvs.apache.org:/home/cvspublic co apr-iconv |
| |
| Be sure to use a native Windows CVS client (as opposed to |
| Cygwin's version) so that the .dsp files get carriage-returns at |
| the ends of their lines. Otherwise Visual Studio will complain |
| that it doesn't recognize the .dsp files. |
| |
| |
| 2. autoconf 2.50 or newer (Unix only) |
| |
| This is required only if you plan to build from the latest source |
| (see section II.B). Generally only developers would be doing this, |
| but at this stage in Subversion's development you'll probably |
| want to do this as well. |
| |
| |
| 3. libtool 1.4 or newer (Unix only) |
| |
| This is required only if you plan to build from the latest source |
| (see section II.B), which you probably want to do. See above. |
| |
| Note: Some systems (Solaris, for example) require libtool 1.4.3 or |
| newer. The autogen.sh script knows about that. |
| |
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| 4. bison or yacc (Unix only) |
| |
| This is required only if you plan to build from the latest source |
| (see section II.B), which you probably want to do. See above. |
| |
| The reason one of these programs is required is that it will |
| generate the code which parses complex date formats, so that |
| Subversion can work with dates like "yesterday" and "last month" |
| and "four hours ago". Note that most modern Unices come with one |
| or the other of these programs, and only one is required. |
| |
| The reason you don't need one of these programs on a Windows |
| platform is that the date parsing file has been pregenerated |
| and will automatically be copied into place by the Windows |
| Build. |
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| 5. Neon library 0.24.3 (http://www.webdav.org/neon/) |
| |
| The Neon library allows a Subversion client to interact with remote |
| repositories over the Internet via a WebDAV based protocol. If you |
| want to use Subversion to connect to a server over ra_dav (via a |
| http:// or https:// url), you will require Neon. |
| |
| The Neon library source code can be installed in "./neon" if you |
| want Subversion to build it. The source code is included with the |
| latest Subversion tarball, and it can also be obtained from: |
| |
| http://www.webdav.org/neon/neon-0.24.3.tar.gz |
| |
| Unpack the archive using tar/gunzip and rename the resulting |
| directory from "./neon-0.24.3/" to "./neon/". |
| |
| Without source code, a previously compiled library can be picked up |
| from the standard locations. If you want to specify a nonstandard |
| location, you need to use the LDFLAGS environment variable when |
| you run "./configure". You may also have to specify where the |
| neon-config script (which identifies various features of the Neon |
| library) is kept by giving the "--with-neon=" option to |
| "./configure". Note that the script should be kept in a "bin" |
| subdirectory beneath wherever "--with-neon" is pointed. |
| |
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| 6. Berkeley DB 4.0.14 |
| |
| Berkeley DB is needed to build a Subversion server, or to access |
| a repository on local disk. If you are only interested in |
| building a Subversion client that speaks to a remote (networked) |
| repository, you don't need it. |
| |
| You'll need Berkeley DB 4.0.14 installed on your system. You can |
| get it from: |
| |
| http://www.sleepycat.com/download/patchlogs.shtml |
| |
| If you have Berkeley DB installed in a place not searched by default |
| for includes and libraries; add this flag |
| |
| --with-berkeley-db=/usr/local/BerkeleyDB.4.0 |
| |
| to your `configure' switches, and the build process will use the |
| Berkeley library in the named directory. You may need to use a |
| different path, of course. |
| |
| 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: |
| |
| http://subversion.tigris.org/servlets/ProjectDownloadList |
| |
| |
| 7. Apache Web Server 2.0.47 or newer |
| (http://httpd.apache.org/download.cgi) |
| |
| The Apache HTTP server is required if you wish to offer your |
| Subversion repository over the Internet. 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. |
| |
| |
| 8. Python 2.0 (http://www.python.org/) |
| |
| 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 2.0 or higher on your system. The majority of the test |
| suite is written in Python, as is part of Subversion's build |
| system. |
| |
| |
| 9. Visual C++ 6.0 or newer (Windows Only) |
| |
| To build Subversion under any of the MS Windows platforms, you |
| will need a copy of Microsoft Visual C++. You can generate the |
| project files using the gen-make.py script. |
| |
| |
| 10. Libraries for our libraries |
| |
| Some of the libraries that Subversion depends on themselves have |
| optional dependencies that can add features to what Subversion |
| can do. Here are some examples. |
| |
| The Neon library has support for SSL encryption by relying on the |
| OpenSSL library. When Neon is created with this dependency, then |
| the Subversion client inherits the ability to support SSL |
| connections. Neon also has support for sending compressed data |
| using the zlib library which a Subversion client can take |
| advantage of. |
| |
| With Unix-based systems, you can enable support for SSL from the |
| Subversion build provided that you are building Neon in the |
| "./neon/" directory as described above in section I.5. You also |
| need OpenSSL installed on your system. Just add "--with-ssl" as |
| a parameter when you run Subversion's "./configure", and it will |
| be passed on to the Neon build system. If your OpenSSL |
| installation is hard for Neon to find, you may need to use |
| "--with-libs=/path/to/lib" in addition. The zlib library is |
| included in Neon by default, but you can also specify a path to the |
| library using "--with-libs". Consult the Neon documentation for |
| more information on how to use these parameters and versions of |
| libraries you need. |
| |
| Under Windows, you can specify the paths to these libraries by |
| passing the options --with-zlib and --with-openssl to gen-make.py. |
| |
| You can also add support for these features to a Subversion server |
| and you can even use 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/ |
| |
| Many Unix systems already come with zlib, but if you need it, it |
| is available from: |
| |
| http://www.gzip.org/zlib/ |
| |
| Windows users should just get the pre-built package: |
| |
| http://www.gzip.org/zlib/contrib/zlib113-win32.zip |
| |
| The neon build scripts on Windows are set up to use those |
| libraries. |
| |
| |
| 11. Building The Documentation |
| |
| The master source format for Subversion's documentation is |
| Docbook Lite. See doc/book/README for instructions how to |
| compile the book into a useful format. |
| |
| The preferred documentation source format used to be Texinfo. We are |
| in the process of migrating all texinfo files to DocBook Lite. The |
| online documentation for texinfo is at |
| |
| http://www.gnu.org/manual/texinfo-4.0/html_chapter/texinfo_toc.html |
| |
| Depending on exactly which doc targets you make, you'll need one |
| or more of: |
| |
| * the `makeinfo' program from the latest texinfo package in |
| ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/texinfo/ |
| |
| * the `texi2dvi' or `texi2html' programs |
| |
| * the `dvipdf' script from Ghostscript (pipes dvi | ps | |
| Ghostscript) |
| |
| If `makeinfo' is not installed before `configure' is run, then |
| the documentation will not be created and installed. |
| |
| |
| |
| II. INSTALLATION |
| ============ |
| |
| A. Bootstrapping from a Tarball or RPM |
| ----------------------------------- |
| |
| In order to get the very latest Subversion source code, you need |
| to check it out of a Subversion repository, and therefore you |
| first need a Subversion client. |
| |
| |
| 1. Bootstrapping from a Tarball |
| |
| Download the most recent distribution tarball from: |
| |
| http://subversion.tigris.org/servlets/ProjectDownloadList |
| |
| Unpack it, and use the standard GNU procedure to compile: |
| |
| $ ./configure --enable-maintainer-mode |
| $ make |
| |
| (The switch to ./configure turns on debugging.) |
| |
| After compiling, you will have an 'svn' binary sitting in |
| the tree. Use it to check out a real Subversion working copy: |
| |
| $ subversion-rXXXX/subversion/clients/cmdline/svn checkout \ |
| http://svn.collab.net/repos/svn/trunk svn |
| |
| A svn/dist.sh |
| A svn/buildcheck.sh |
| A svn/HACKING |
| ... |
| |
| |
| 2. Bootstrapping 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/linux/redhat/RPMS/i386 or |
| http://summersoft.fay.ar.us/pub/linux/mandrake/RPMS/ppc directory. |
| |
| Currently only Linux on the i386 and ppc platforms are 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 2.0.47 or greater) |
| db*.i386.rpm (Version 4.0.14 or greater) |
| expat (Comes with RedHat) |
| neon (Version 0.24.3) |
| |
| After downloading, install it (as root user): |
| |
| # rpm -ivh subversion*.386.rpm (add other packages as necessary) |
| |
| After installing, you can then use the svn command to check out the |
| latest source code: |
| |
| $ /usr/bin/svn checkout http://svn.collab.net/repos/svn/trunk svn |
| A svn/dist.sh |
| A svn/buildcheck.sh |
| A svn/HACKING |
| ... |
| |
| 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 Subversion working copy. See the section |
| "Bootstrapping from a Tarball or RPM" above for more.) |
| |
| You can discard the directory created by the tarball; you're |
| about to build the latest, greatest Subversion client. |
| |
| 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/libneon* |
| |
| 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 2.50 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=autoconf2.50 sh ./autogen.sh |
| |
| Once you've prepared the working copy by running autogen.sh, |
| just follow the usual configuration and build procedure: |
| |
| $ ./configure --enable-maintainer-mode |
| $ make |
| # make install |
| |
| (We recommend `--enable-maintainer-mode' so you get a debuggable |
| Subversion. See also section III.A for more about this.) |
| |
| 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: |
| |
| svn_error: #21068 : <Bad URL passed to RA layer> |
| Unrecognized URL scheme: http://svn.collab.net/repos/svn/trunk |
| |
| It probably means that the dynamic loader/linker can't find all |
| of the libsvn_* libraries. |
| |
| Note that if you commonly build with the -jN option to make, the |
| make step above may fail, because we don't ensure that third |
| party libraries in our source tree will finish building before |
| subversion itself. If you want to use -jN, use the following |
| instead: |
| |
| $ ./configure --enable-maintainer-mode --disable-shared |
| $ make -jN external-all |
| $ make -jN local-all |
| $ make check |
| # make install |
| |
| (The second option to configure inhibits the creation of shared |
| libraries; subversion commands will be statically linked to libsvn_*. On |
| some systems the commands will still be dynamically linked to already |
| installed shared libraries. For a completely static build see the |
| '--enable-all-static' option.) |
| |
| |
| 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 http://svn.collab.net/repos/svn/trunk svn |
| $ cd svn |
| $ # get neon/apr as required |
| $ chmod +x autogen.sh |
| $ ./autogen.sh |
| $ mkdir ../obj |
| $ cd ../obj |
| $ ../svn/configure [...with options as appropriate...] |
| $ make |
| |
| puts the Subversion working copy in the directory svn and builds |
| it in a separate, parallel directory obj. |
| |
| Why would you want to do this? Well there are a number of |
| reasons... |
| |
| * You may prefer to avoid "polluting" the working copy with |
| files generated during the build. |
| |
| * You may want to put the build directory and the working |
| copy on different physical disks to improve performance. |
| |
| * You may want to separate source and object code and only |
| backup the source. |
| |
| * You may want to remote mount the working copy on multiple |
| machines, and build for different machines from the same |
| working copy. |
| |
| * You may want to build multiple configurations from the |
| same working copy. |
| |
| The last reason above is possibly the most useful. For instance |
| you can have separate debug and optimised builds each using the |
| same working copy. Or you may want a client-only build and a |
| client-server build. Using multiple build directories you can |
| rebuild any or all configurations after an edit without the need |
| to either clean and reconfigure, or identify and copy changes |
| into another working copy. |
| |
| |
| D. Bootstrapping from a Zip File under Windows |
| ------------------------------------------- |
| |
| Of all the ways of getting a Subversion client, this is the |
| easiest. Just download the ZIP file, run your unzipping utility |
| (WinZIP, ZipGenius, UltimateZIP, FreeZIP, whatever) and extract |
| the DLLs and EXEs to a directory of your choice. Included in |
| the download is the SVN client, the SVNADMIN administration |
| tool, and the SVNLOOK reporting tool. |
| |
| Now open a DOS box (run either "cmd" or "command" from the |
| Start menu's "Run..." menu option), change to the directory you |
| installed the executables into, and run: |
| |
| C:\test>svn co http://svn.collab.net/repos/svn/trunk svn |
| |
| This will get the latest Subversion sources and put them into the |
| "svn" subdirectory. |
| |
| |
| E. Building the Latest Source under Windows |
| ---------------------------------------- |
| |
| (These instructions assume you have already installed Subversion |
| and checked out a Subversion working copy. See the section |
| "Bootstrapping from a Zip File under Windows" above for more.) |
| |
| There is some support for building Subversion on Win32 |
| platforms. The project files generated by gen-make.py are for |
| Microsoft Visual C++ 6.x; earlier versions of the compiler are |
| not supported. You'll also need a fairly recent version of the |
| Microsoft Platform SDK; the header files that come with MSVC 6.x |
| are too old. |
| |
| To generate the project files, you will need Python 2.2 for Windows |
| installed. Installing Python will also allow you to run the test |
| suite after you build the source. |
| |
| To build the client components, you'll need a copy of neon |
| 0.24.3. See section I.5 for details on where to get one and |
| what to do with it when you get it. |
| |
| [NOTE: The neon library supports secure connections with OpenSSL |
| and on-the-wire compression with zlib. If you want to use |
| those features, you should pass the options "--with-zlib" and |
| "--with-openssl" to the gen-make.py script. See Section I.10 |
| for more details.] |
| |
| If you are installing under Win9x, NT4, or WinME, and svn.exe |
| doesn't run, try installing shfolder.dll from here: |
| |
| http://download.microsoft.com/download/platformsdk/Redist/5.50.4027.300/W9XNT4/EN-US/shfinst.EXE |
| |
| If you want to build the (local) server components, you'll also |
| need a copy of Berkeley DB, version 4.0.14 or newer. Details are |
| in Section I.6. For your convenience, there is also a binary |
| distribution on the Subversion downloads page |
| |
| http://subversion.tigris.org/ProjectDownloadList |
| |
| The file there is named |
| |
| db-4.0.14-win32.zip |
| |
| Unpack the distribution into the root directory of the Subversion |
| source tree as <SVN>\db4-win32. It's a good idea to add |
| <SVN>\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-4.0.14\build_win32\db.h to <SVN>\db4-win32\include, |
| and all the import libraries to <SVN>\db4-win32\lib. Again, the |
| DLLs should be somewhere in your path. |
| |
| To build the Apache module, you will also need the Apache 2.0.47 |
| or later Win32 source. You can download it from here: |
| |
| http://httpd.apache.org/download.cgi |
| |
| Finally, you will need to copy the Apache apr libraries into the |
| root of the Subversion source tree. |
| |
| Walkthrough: |
| |
| Unzip the Apache source. Copy the Apache apr, apr-util, and |
| apr-iconv directories from the Apache httpd-2.0.47\srclib |
| directory to the top-level Subversion directory. |
| |
| Open the Apache.dsw file and build the Apache source. If you |
| don't compile Apache, mod_dav_svn will not build. |
| |
| Run "python gen-make.py -t dsp --with-httpd=<path-to-httpd>" |
| to generate the Visual C++ 6.x project files. If you don't |
| want to build mod_dav_svn, omit the --with-httpd option. |
| Run "python gen-make.py -help" to see other options. |
| |
| Open the subversion_msvc.dsw file gen-make creates in the |
| top-level directory. Compile the __ALL__ target to compile |
| everything, __ALL_TESTS__ to also build the test programs. |
| |
| The following is a sample script. |
| gunzip, tar, and unzip are native win32 apps taken from |
| |
| http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/ |
| |
| C:\Subversion> svn co http://svn.collab.net/repos/svn/trunk src |
| C:\Subversion> gunzip neon-0.24.3.tar.gz |
| C:\Subversion> cd src |
| C:\Subversion\src> tar -xvf ..\neon-0.24.3.tar |
| C:\Subversion\src> ren neon-0.24.3 neon |
| C:\Subversion\src> unzip ..\db-4.0.14-win32.zip |
| C:\Subversion\src> cd .. |
| C:\Subversion> unzip httpd_2.0.47-win32-src.zip |
| C:\Subversion> xcopy /S httpd-2.0.47\srclib\apr src\apr |
| C:\Subversion> xcopy /S httpd-2.0.47\srclib\apr-util src\apr-util |
| C:\Subversion> xcopy /S httpd-2.0.47\srclib\apr-iconv src\apr-iconv |
| C:\Subversion> msdev httpd-2.0.47\apache.dsw /MAKE ALL |
| C:\Subversion> cd src |
| C:\Subversion\src> python gen-make.py -t dsp --with-httpd=..\httpd-2.0.47 |
| C:\Subversion\src> msdev subversion_msvc.dsw /MAKE __ALL__ |
| |
| |
| [NOTE: There have been rumors that Subversion on Win32 can be built |
| using the latest cygwin. ymmv.] |
| |
| |
| |
| III. BUILDING A SUBVERSION SERVER |
| ============================ |
| |
| A. Setting Up Apache |
| ----------------- |
| |
| (Following the BOOTSTRAPPING FROM RPM procedures above will install and |
| build the latest Subversion server for Linux RedHat 7.1, 7.2, and PPC |
| Linux systems *IF* the apache-devel-2.0.41 or greater package is already |
| installed when the SUBVERSION RPM is built.) |
| |
| |
| 1. Obtaining and Installing Apache 2.0 |
| |
| Subversion tries to compile against the latest released version |
| of Apache httpd-2.0. The easiest thing for you to do is |
| download a source tarball of the latest release and unpack that. |
| |
| Alternately, if you'd rather use the latest CVS versions of |
| everything, checkout the "httpd-2.0" cvs module from apache.org. |
| If you have questions about the Apache 2.0 build, please consult |
| the HTTPD install documentation: |
| |
| http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/install.html. Place this |
| module wherever you wish; it's an independent project. |
| |
| $ cvs -d :pserver:anoncvs@cvs.apache.org:/home/cvspublic login |
| (password 'anoncvs') |
| |
| $ cvs -d :pserver:anoncvs@cvs.apache.org:/home/cvspublic \ |
| co -r APACHE_2_0_BRANCH httpd-2.0 |
| |
| Checkout the "apr" and "apr-util" modules into the srclib/ directory: |
| |
| $ cd httpd-2.0/srclib |
| $ cvs -d :pserver:anoncvs@cvs.apache.org:/home/cvspublic co apr |
| $ cvs -d :pserver:anoncvs@cvs.apache.org:/home/cvspublic co apr-util |
| |
| At the top of the httpd-2.0 tree: |
| |
| $ ./buildconf |
| $ ./configure --enable-dav --enable-so --enable-maintainer-mode |
| |
| The first arg says to build mod_dav. |
| |
| The second arg says to enable shared module support which is needed |
| for a typical compile of mod_dav_svn (see below). |
| |
| The third arg says to include debugging information. If you |
| built Subversion with --enable-maintainer-mode, then you should |
| do the same for Apache; there can be problems if one was |
| compiled with debugging and the other without. |
| |
| Note: if you have multiple db versions installed on your system, |
| Apache might link to a different one than Subversion, causing |
| failures when accessing the repository through Apache. To prevent |
| this from happening, you have to tell Apache which db version to |
| use and where to find db. Add --with-dbm=db4 and |
| --with-berkeley-db=/usr/local/BerkeleyDB.4.0 to the configure |
| line. Make sure this is the same db as the one Subversion uses. |
| This note assumes you have installed Berkeley DB 4.0.14 |
| at its default locations. For more info about the db requirement, |
| see section I.6. |
| |
| You may also want to include other modules in your build. Add |
| --enable-ssl to turn on SSL support, and --enable-deflate to turn on |
| compression support, for example. Consult the Apache documentation |
| for more details. |
| |
| All instructions below assume you configured Apache to install |
| in its default location, /usr/local/apache2/; substitute |
| appropriately if you chose some other location. |
| |
| Compile and install apache: |
| |
| $ make && make install |
| |
| |
| B. Making and Installing the Subversion Server |
| ------------------------------------------- |
| |
| Go back into your subversion working copy and run ./autogen.sh if |
| you need to. Then, assuming Apache HTTP 2.0 is installed in the |
| standard location, run: |
| |
| $ ./configure |
| |
| Note: do *not* configure subversion with "--disable-shared"! |
| mod_dav_svn *must* be built as a shared library, and it will |
| look for other libsvn_*.so libraries on your system. |
| |
| If you see a warning message that the build of mod_dav_svn is being |
| skipped, this may be because you have Apache HTTP 2.0 installed |
| in a non-standard location. You can use the "--with-apxs=" option |
| to locate the apxs script: |
| |
| $ ./configure --with-apxs=/usr/local/apache2/bin/apxs |
| |
| Note: it *is* possible to build mod_dav_svn as a static library |
| and link it directly into Apache. Possible, but painful. Stick |
| with the shared library for now; if you can't, then ask. |
| |
| $ rm /usr/local/lib/libsvn* |
| |
| If you have old subversion libraries sitting on your system, |
| libtool will link them instead of the `fresh' ones in your tree. |
| Remove them before building subversion. |
| |
| $ make clean && make && make install |
| |
| After the make install, the Subversion shared libraries are in |
| /usr/local/lib/. mod_dav_svn.so should be installed in |
| /usr/local/apache2/modules/. |
| |
| |
| Section II.E explains how to build the server on Windows. |
| |
| |
| C. Configuring Apache for Subversion |
| --------------------------------- |
| |
| The following assumes you have already created a repository. |
| For documentation on how to do that, see README. |
| |
| The following also assumes that you have modified |
| /usr/local/apache2/conf/httpd.conf to reflect your setup. |
| At a minimum you should look at the User, Group and ServerName |
| directives. Full details on setting up apache can be found at: |
| http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/ |
| |
| First, your httpd.conf needs to load the mod_dav_svn module. |
| Subversion's 'make install' target should automatically add this |
| line for you. But if apache gives you an error like "Unknown |
| DAV provider: svn", then you may want to verify that this line |
| exists in your httpd.conf: |
| |
| LoadModule dav_svn_module modules/mod_dav_svn.so |
| |
| NOTE: if you built mod_dav as a dynamic module aswell, make sure |
| the above line appears after the one that loads mod_dav.so. |
| |
| Next, add this to the *bottom* of your httpd.conf: |
| |
| <Location /svn/repos> |
| DAV svn |
| SVNPath /absolute/path/to/repository |
| </Location> |
| |
| This will give anyone unrestricted access to the repository. If |
| you want limited access, read or write, you add these lines to |
| 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 2.0: |
| |
| $ /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/clients/cmdline/README. |
| For advice about tracing problems, see "Debugging the server" in |
| the HACKING file. |
| |
| |
| E. Alternative: 'svnserve' and ra_svn |
| ----------------------------------- |
| |
| As of svn 0.16, we have a new repository-access implementation, |
| 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.) |
| |
| (Expect the server invocation options to change incompatibly |
| before they are finalized.) |
| |
| For now, svnserve in daemon mode only supports anonymous access. |
| But you can also tunnel ra_svn over ssh or any similar tool: |
| |
| $ svn checkout svn+ssh://hostname/usr/local/svn/repository |
| |
| In this mode of operation, there is no svnserve daemon process; |
| the svn client will ssh to the server and run "svnserve -t" to |
| do the serving. Make sure svnserve is in your path on the |
| server. You can override the "ssh" command with the SVN_SSH |
| environment variable, or you can define new tunnel schemes in |
| the [tunnels] section of ~/.subversion/config. By default, only |
| the "ssh" scheme is allowed. |
| |
| |
| |
| 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.tigris.org/project_faq.html#windows-xp-server |
| |
| The only known workaround for now is to update to Windows XP |
| SP1 (or higher). |
| |
| |
| B. Mac OS X |
| -------- |
| |
| [TBD: Describe BDB 4.0.x problem] |
