How to install svn 1.8.5 with neon on Mavericks?

Question

Does anyone of you installed svn 1.8.* together with neon on OS X Mavericks?

I followed this tutorial:

http://jason.pureconcepts.net/2012/10/updating-svn-mac-os-x/

But after trying to configure svn to use neon:

./configure --prefix=/usr/local --with-neon

I get this warning:

configure: WARNING: unrecognized options: --with-neon

Building and installation work fine after this, but of course I can not connect to WEBDAV repositories.

Answer 1

to download the subversion-1.8.0 and subversion-1.8.9

http://archive.apache.org/dist/subversion/
Then unzip it.

to setup compiler environment

cd /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/
ln -s XcodeDefault.xctoolchain OSX10.9.xctoolchain

to build serf (http client module) for svn

As @Ben Reser mentioned: Subversion no longer supports the neon http library with 1.8 and has moved exclusively to using the serf http library.

cd ~/Downloads/subversion-1.8.0
sh get-deps.sh serf
cd serf/
./configure
make
sudo make install

note: if you failed on ./configure

messages you may see

checking whether we are cross compiling... configure: error: in ~/Downloads/subversion-1.8.0/serf': configure: error: cannot run C compiled programs. If you meant to cross compile, use--host'. See `config.log' for more details

It might be missing of the Xcode developer tools installed.

xcode-select --install

to build svn 1.8.9

cd ~/Downloads/subversion-1.8.9
./configure --prefix=/usr/local --with-serf=/usr/local/serf
make
sudo make install

to add svn path to your ~/.bash_profile

export PATH=/usr/local/bin:$PATH
. ~/.bash_profile

to verify

svn --version

==> you should see

svn, version 1.8.9 (r1591380)

further more to update the svn client in Xcode

cd /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr/bin/
sudo -s
mkdir svn_old
mv svn* svn_old/
ln -s /usr/local/bin/svn* ./
./svn --version

Answer 2

Subversion no longer supports the neon http library with 1.8 and has moved exclusively to using the serf http library.

Answer 3

After extracting the ZIP archive I get this error invoking the shell script

MacBook-Pro:subversion-1.8.9 mario$ sh get-deps.sh serf
: command not found5: 
: command not found3: 
: command not found2: 
: invalid numbere 48: printf: 1
: command not found1: 
: command not found4: 
: command not found7: 
: command not found2: 
: command not found6: 
'et-deps.sh: line 68: syntax error near unexpected token `{
'et-deps.sh: line 68: `usage() {

After downloading the tar.gz archive and repeating the operation the shell script get-deps.sh ran successfully.

Answer 4

You need to set here a path to neon as well like this: --with-neon=/path_to_neon/neon-0.29.6.  It is not enough just to say --with-neon. :)