Hello- I just tried to build subversion v1.6.17 from source (on CentOS 5.5). When I tried to run get-deps.sh it errors out since the SQLite-amalgamation download fails with a 404. On http://www.sqlite.org/download.html I see that it could download a zipfile at http://www.sqlite.org/sqlite-amalgamation-3070701.zip but there's not a .tar.gz version listed to compare against. Looks like they might have changed the download URL format.
If you tweak the get-deps script and download and extract the zipfile manually then you can get underway, thought I'd just pass this on. -Rolf