Wondering if I could get help with configuring serf 1.39 with subversion 1.12 on a SLES 11.4 box.
Background SLES 11.4 just came off long term support. We still have to support quite a few SLES 11.4 machines. Our svn admin has tightened security requirements and the svn revisions we were using on SLES 11.4 no longer work. We are attempting to remediate by compiling subversion 1.12 on a SLES 11.4. We are accustomed to compiling Openssl from tarballs on SLES 11.4. We are currently using 1.0.2. The first attempt to use a freshly compiled svn went as follows: dev@cardamom:/NAS/dev> svn --version svn, version 1.12.0 (r1857323) compiled May 15 2019, 09:35:22 on x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu dev@cardamom:/NAS/dev> svn co https://svn/xxx/zzz/trunk/APPS <https://svn/raleigh/tpm/trunk/APPS> svn: E170000: Unrecognized URL scheme for 'https://svn/xxx/zzz/trunk/APPS <https://svn/raleigh/tpm/trunk/APPS>' Looks like we need to configure with serf. Download 1.39. Install SCons. Build as follows: dev@cardamom:~/wrk/sandbox/svn/serf-1.3.9> scons OPENSSL=/home/dev/wrk/openssl_build/save/1.0.2n APR=/usr/local/apr APU=/usr/local/apr Ran "scons install" as root. Rebuild svn: dev@cardamom:~/wrk/sandbox/svn/subversion-1.12.0> ./configure --with-lz4=internal --with-utf8proc=internal --with-serf=/usr/local configure: Configuring Subversion 1.12.0 configure: creating config.nice checking for gcc... gcc checking whether the C compiler works... yes checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out checking for suffix of executables... checking whether we are cross compiling... no 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 if gcc accepts -std=c90... no checking if gcc accepts -std=c89... yes checking if gcc accepts -w... yes checking if gcc accepts -Werror=unknown-warning-option... no checking for g++... g++ checking whether we are using the GNU C++ compiler... yes checking whether g++ accepts -g... yes checking if g++ accepts -std=c++11... no checking if g++ accepts -w... yes checking if g++ accepts -Werror=unknown-warning-option... no 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... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu checking host system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu checking target system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu 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... yes checking APR version... 1.7.0 configure: Apache Portable Runtime Utility (APRUTIL) library configuration checking for APR-util... yes checking APRUTIL version... 1.6.1 checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config checking for ANSI C header files... yes checking for sys/types.h... yes checking for sys/stat.h... yes checking for stdlib.h... yes checking for string.h... yes checking for memory.h... yes checking for strings.h... yes checking for inttypes.h... yes checking for stdint.h... yes checking for unistd.h... yes configure: serf library configuration via pkg-config checking for serf-2 library... no checking for serf-1 library... no configure: serf library configuration via prefix-/usr/local checking serf.h usability... yes checking serf.h presence... yes checking for serf.h... yes checking for serf_context_create in -lserf-1... no checking was serf enabled... no An appropriate version of serf could not be found, so libsvn_ra_serf will not be built. If you want to build libsvn_ra_serf, please install serf 1.3.4 or newer. configure: error: Serf was explicitly enabled but an appropriate version was not found. Make sure serf was installed correctly: dev@cardamom:~/wrk/sandbox/svn/serf-1.3.9> cmp libserf-1.so.1.3.0 /usr/local/lib/libserf-1.so.1.3.0 dev@cardamom:~/wrk/sandbox/svn/serf-1.3.9> Manually check if label is in lib: dev@cardamom:~/wrk/sandbox/svn/subversion-1.12.0> strings /usr/local/lib/libserf-1.so.1.3.0 | grep serf_context_create serf_context_create_ex serf_context_create >From what I can tell from reading the configure script, a test file is being compiled to see if serf_context_create is in the library it compiles with. I have not been able to get the script to divulge which lib it is using yet. Any help getting svn configure to work with serf would be much appreciated. Thanks Mike Refs.: https://svn.haxx.se/users/archive-2017-06/0040.shtml