How to make apr available for subversion install?

Question

I try to install subversion from source, but on ./configure receive:

configure: error: no suitable apr found

I have download apr source and installed:

libraries have been installed in:
/usr/local/apr/lib

So I returned to configure of subversion but receive the same error. What I should do? Thanks.

Answer 1

When configuring Subversion, try

./configure --with-apr=/usr/local/apr/

That might not be exactly the right path. Try finding apr-config and giving the path to that. I'm guessing it might be:

./configure --with-apr=/usr/local/apr/bin/apr-config

Try ./configure --help to see what your options are. There are a lot of them.

Answer 2

Have you tried including the path to LD_LIBRARY_PATH? I don't know how good an option this is, but something simple like this is worth a try:

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}":/usr/local/apr/lib