On 15.03.2016 13:38, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 11:43 AM, Eric Dramstad <edr...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Is there a right way to install subversion 1.9.3 using GNU Stow? >> >> I use stow to manage package installation for packages that I build >> myself. I'm trying to build and install subversion 1.9.3 on a machine >> running Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5.11. I'm building subversion >> myself because the newest version available from yum is 1.6.11. > Don't hurt yourself trying to do that. The build dependencies have > gotten too far ahead of the base components for RHEL 5 for even me, > and I published the last update for Repoforge. Save yourself some pain > and take a look at Wandisco's public offerings if you need to run the > server on RHEL 5, or stell yourself for the jump tp RHEL 6 or RHEL 7.
In order to avoid any nasty surprises down the road, I'll point out that WANdisco no longer employs any Subversion developers. I have no idea how this may affect the availability of their binary packages in future. -- Brane
