Campbell Allan wrote on Thu, 8 Jul 2010 at 17:13 -0000: > > On Thursday 08 Jul 2010, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 7:05 AM, Jason Aubrey <aubre...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hi All, > > > > > > I recently set up svn over http for a project I'm involved with. One > > > user made the following complaints: > > > > > > (1) Some svn clients do not support the http protocol. This > > > is a common occurrence when a user builds svn from source. > > > > Yup: if you don't have the HTTPD or Apache include files installed, > > known as the "httpd-devel" package under RPM based Linux distributions > > like RedHat and Fedora, you can't build the relevant software because > > you lack the compilation tools. The "./configure" script detects this > > and disables the relevant features. > > > > Are you certain about that? Neon or serf provide the client with http support > and are both in the subversion-deps source tarball. I'm fairly sure all the > machines I've compiled on have never had the httpd-devel like packages > installed (or in some cases any dev packages beyond the compiler). https > support can be tricky as this will require either the openssl dev package to > be installed or a local build handy.
httpd dev packages are ONLY required to build mod_dav_svn. They are not required unless you're going to run a server.
