SVN on AIX ?

[hfaix]

Has anyone successfully compiled or installed SVN on AIX (5.3)?

I'm trying to compile it as per the instructions, however I keep getting a "configure: error: subversion requires zlib" even though I downloaded and extracted the dependency packages (with zlib).

Any thoughts? I found a couple hits "the" google that say :

cd zlib
../configure --prefix=...
make install
cd ..
../configure --prefix=<the_same_as_above>

What am I supposed to put in the prefix?

 

[hfaix]

Does anybody use SVN (subversion)?

I got in installed on Fedora 7 in about 40 minutes. I have about 8 hours into getting it running on AIX 5.3...no luck yet.

 

[reclspeak]

I managed to get svn running on 4.3.3 but compiling from source. I used the Linux utilities for 4.3.3 for packages like zlib. I couldn't get the apache support working though and the SVN community are pretty useless when it comes to supporting AIX, HP-UX or Solaris.

I vaguely remember that ./configure had the option of numerous flags, but the most important ones were those relating to shared libraries, there may even be specific flags for zlib's existance and/or path.

If I get an opportunity I will see if I can find a note about the build process I used to build an svn server on the rather older 4.3.3.

 

[hfaix]

Thanks for the post. I've gotten a lot further now. I pulled down gcc and gcc++ (and several pre-reqs) to try a different compiler. That seems to have done the trick. I was using IBM compilers.

 

[Breslau]

we got it to compile here, by using the deps package.

i noticed the same thing, it wouldn't find my zlib right off the bat.

 

[hfaix]

I wouldn't be doing tek-tips any service, if I didn't post how I got this working. It took a bit of tinkering, but it works. Note, this may not work for everyone...but it works for me. I did this on 5.3 TL5SP4 servers.

1) mkdir /usr/svn
2) cd /usr/svn
3) download subversion-deps-1.4.3.tar.gz and subversion-1.4.3.tar.gz from the subversion website.
4) gunzip subversion-deps-1.4.3.tar.gz #needs downloaded first
5) gunzip subversion-1.4.3.tar.gz #needs downloaded first
6) tar -xvf subversion-1.4.3.tar
7) tar -xvf subversion-deps-1.4.3.tar
8) chown -R root:system /usr/svn/subversion-1.4.3/

9) download necessary compiler pre-reqs from IBM Linux Toolbox for AIX

10) rpm –i gcc-4.0.0-1.aix5.3.ppc.rpm
11) rpm –i libgcc-4.0.0-1.aix5.3.ppc.rpm
12) rpm –i libstdcplusplus-4.0.0-1.aix5.3.ppc.rpm
13) rpm –i libstdcplusplus-devel-4.0.0-1.aix5.3.ppc.rpm
14) rpm -i gcc-cplusplus-4.0.0-1.aix5.3.ppc.rpm

15) mkdir /usr/svn/custom
16) cd /usr/svn/subversion-1.4.3/zlib
17) ./configure --prefix /usr/svn/custom #configures
18) ./configure –s --prefix /usr/svn/custom #configures with shared libs
19) make
20) make install

21) cd ..
22) ./configure --prefix /usr/svn/custom
23) make
24) make install

TEST..
25) PATH=/usr/svn/custom/bin:$PATH
26) svn --version

 

[shaan00]

hfaix,

Your directions were great.

I followed them to install svn subversion-1.4.3 on AIX 5.2 ML8.
Replacing the 5.3 rpms with the 5.2 rpms.

I was getting these errors below
(When running step 22 ./configure --prefix /usr/svn/custom)

checking for _doprnt... yes
checking for symlink... yes
checking for readlink... yes
checking zlib.h usability... no
checking zlib.h presence... no
checking for zlib.h... no
configure: error: subversion requires zlib


and


(when running step 24 make install )

exec(): 0509-036 Cannot load program /usr/svn/subversion-1.4.3/subversion/svnversion/.libs/lt-svnversion because of the following errors:
0509-022 Cannot load module /usr/svn/subversion-1.4.3/subversion/libsvn_delta/.libs/libsvn_delta-1.so.
0509-150 Dependent module /usr/svn/custom/lib/libz.a(libz.so.1) could not be loaded.
0509-152 Member libz.so.1 is not found in archive
make: 1254-004 The error code from the last command is 255.



I did two things to fix these errors not sure which one actually fixed what.



1. removed the /usr/svn/custom with failed build content

2. download zlib and untar it under /usr/local.