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Hi,
Since Mountain Lion Apple has decided to remove svn with apache modules all together. I haven't been able to configure subversion running on https as I did in Lion Server. I tried compile and install subversion from source (subversion.apache.org) but apache won't start properly.
Has anybody got any luck with that?
Thanks
Mac mini Server (Mid 2011), OS X Server
The following approach seems to be successful:
1) Download and extract the SVN sources:
subversion-deps-1.6.18.tar.bz2
2) Configure SVN with the following command (from within the subversion-1.6.18 directory the two above files where extracted into - I used /usr/local/src/subversion-1.6.18/ You will have to adjust the command to reflect the location you are using)
./configure --with-apr=/usr/local/src/subversion-1.6.18/apr --with-apr-util=/usr/local/src/subversion-1.6.18/apr-util
3) Compile SVN:
make
4) Copy the two module sources into apache's directory:
sudo cp subversion/mod_authz_svn/.libs/mod_authz_svn.so /usr/libexec/apache2/
sudo cp subversion/mod_dav_svn/.libs/mod_dav_svn.so /usr/libexec/apache2/
5) Compile and install APR & APR-UTIL
cd apr;sudo make install;cd ../apr-util;sudo make install
Andreas
Hi Andreas,
Thanks for the quick reply.
I have tried to follow your instructions step by step, but when I try to do
./configure --with-apr=/usr/local/src/subversion-1.6.18/apr --with-apr-util=/usr/local/src/subversion-1.6.18/apr-util
It stops here:
Configure: Apache Portable Runtime (APR) library configuration
checking for APR... configure: error: the --with-apr parameter is incorrect. It must specify an install prefix, a build directory, or an apr-config file.
Is there anything I am missing?
Thanks
Mark
bash-3.2# pwd
/usr/local/src/subversion-1.6.18
bash-3.2# ./configure --with-apr=/usr/local/src/subversion-1.6.18/apr --with-apr-util=/usr/local/src/subversion-1.6.18/apr-util
configure: Configuring Subversion 1.6.18
configure: creating config.nice
checking for gcc... gcc
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of executables...
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed
checking for g++... g++
checking whether we are using the GNU C++ compiler... yes
checking whether g++ accepts -g... yes
checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E
checking for a sed that does not truncate output... /usr/bin/sed
checking build system type... i386-apple-darwin12.0.0
checking host system type... i386-apple-darwin12.0.0
checking target system type... i386-apple-darwin12.0.0
checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /usr/bin/grep
checking for egrep... /usr/bin/grep -E
checking whether ln -s works... yes
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
configure: Apache Portable Runtime (APR) library configuration
checking for APR... configure: error: the --with-apr parameter is incorrect. It must specify an install prefix, a build directory, or an apr-config file.
bash-3.2# ls
BUGS autogen.sh get-deps.sh
CHANGES build neon
COMMITTERS build-outputs.mk notes
COPYING build.conf packages
HACKING config.log serf
INSTALL config.nice sqlite-amalgamation
Makefile.in configure subversion
README configure.ac tools
TRANSLATING contrib win-tests.py
aclocal.m4 doc www
apr gen-make.opts zlib
apr-util gen-make.py
Not sure why it is not working for you that way - I just tested the command again and it works for me.
Andreas
Just in case it still doesn't work for you - I uploaded the compiled modules to my server and you can grab them from there (I obviously don't take any responsibility if this doesn't work for you…)
http://andreasamann.com/files/ML_Server/mod_authz_svn.so
http://andreasamann.com/files/ML_Server/mod_dav_svn.so
Most likely you will have to adjust the permissions on those files after installing them into /usr/libexec/apache2
Andreas
If you're building svn, I take it you already have Xcode installed. If so, you've already got svn, but it's buried in Xcode.app outside of your default path. You can add an alias like this to your .bashrc so it will be available easily:
alias svn=$(xcrun -find svn)
Oh, you were talking about subversion server. Just ignore me. 🙂
You can also avoid using an alias to svn by installing the command line tools from Xcode's preferences - this will install svn in a standard location which is accessible from your default path.
Andreas
I'm getting the same error here. I've got a brand new OS X Mountain Lion Server install with the latest version of Xcode and command line tools installed.
Searches on Google suggest that this is something to do with no having APR installed. Do you possibly already have something else installed on your system that the rest of us are missing?
I also tried downloading and installing your pre-built version of the .so libraries. When I install them into Apache and test the config I get the following error:
Cannot load /usr/libexec/apache2/mod_dav_svn.so into server: dlopen(/usr/libexec/apache2/mod_dav_svn.so, 10): Library not loaded: /usr/local/apr/lib/libaprutil-1.0.dylib\n Referenced from: /usr/libexec/apache2/mod_dav_svn.so\n Reason: Incompatible library version: mod_dav_svn.so requires version 5.0.0 or later, but libaprutil-1.0.dylib provides version 4.0.0
Thanks very much Andreas! I was going to ask you the same thing..🙂
However I am having the same problem when the mods are referenced:
bash-3.2# apachectl -M
httpd: Syntax error on line 500 of /private/etc/apache2/httpd.conf: Syntax error on line 1 of /private/etc/apache2/other/svn.conf: Cannot load /usr/libexec/apache2/mod_dav_svn.so into server: dlopen(/usr/libexec/apache2/mod_dav_svn.so, 10): Library not loaded: /usr/local/lib/libsvn_repos-1.0.dylib\n Referenced from: /usr/libexec/apache2/mod_dav_svn.so\n Reason: image not found
Could you give us a tar of your /usr/local if possible?
Thanks again!
Hmmm - I do indeed have libapr and libapr-util in /usr/local/apr/lib/ - based on the date it seems that they were installed when I was messing around trying to get the svn modules to work…
Try "sudo make install" from both the apr and apr-util subdirectories of the subversion source tree and then re-configure subversion with the above command to see whether that works…
Andreas
My whole /usr/local might be a little excessive… 😉
Anyway - I created a tar.bz2 of /usr/local/apr/: http://andreasamann.com/files/ML_Server/apr.tar.bz2
Andreas
Still giving out the same error here mate.
If I copy the content of *.dylib from /usr/local/apr2/lib to /usr/lib it seems to pass the version check, but asking something about ldap. Maybe we are missing some module again?
bash-3.2# apachectl -M
dyld: Symbol not found: _apr_ldap_get_option
Referenced from: /usr/sbin/httpd
Expected in: /usr/lib/libaprutil-1.0.dylib
in /usr/sbin/httpd
/usr/sbin/apachectl: line 90: 91486 Trace/BPT trap: 5 $HTTPD $ARGV
Thanks!
Hmm - not sure. I guess sharing individual modules is not the way to go and you'll have to try and compile SVN yourself… 😟
Andreas
Upgraded to Mountain Lion Server, my SVN server is now broken. Anyone got this working yet with detailed steps that actually hold up to someone else trying it? I've tried the above from Andres without success and he seems to stop answering anyone so I'm guessing no one else was able to make it work. If there is anyone out there some detailed steps would be nice since a lot of us aren't super duper users. Especially if it requires compiling from scratch something steps with everything that must be typed would be helpful for the rest of us just trying to get back working what Apple decided to break with this update. --Thanks -- Jim
Jim,
I'm not stopping to answer - the last message in this thread before your posting was mine… 😉
I looked through the subversion INSTALL document again and it seems that my configure command was wrong - if you use the "deps" package and want to build against the included apr/apr-util, you are not supposed to supply the "--with-apr" and "--with-apr-util" parameters. It seems as if step 2) in the original posting should be replaced with
./configure
instead.
The problem is that I can't really test this on a stock system any more so trouble-shooting for me is somewhat difficult… 😊
Andreas
Run Subversion server on OS X Server
