[ale] svn build: configure can't fine db

[Thomas Stromberg]

I don't believe that Subversion 1.2.3 (released in August) supports  
Berkeley DB 4.4 (which was just released this week!).

Regardless, you can build Subversion without Berkeley DB and use the  
fsfs module (--without-berkeley-db), which is what I recommend for  
most usage patterns for Subversion. It can be a royal PITA when your  
Berkeley database is corrupted and you lose revision details, or more  
common, when you upgrade to a new version of Berkeley DB and can't  
read your old subversion database. If you do choose to use the bdb  
backend, I highly recommend having a crontab that runs svnadmin dump  
nightly!

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On 2 dec 2005, at 18.09, Tim Watts wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Anyone out there built svn? I'm having all sorts of trouble  
> building it.
> Yesterday I built it fine. Today I needed to rebuild it to get  
> Berkley DB
> support and now I can't even get a makefile. (yes I tried 'make  
> clean' first;
> also tried untarring a clean distro). Configure doesn't seem to be  
> able to
> deal with db 4.4. Is this true?