Question

I’m trying to install SVN in Linux.

Execute commands –

./configure --prefix=/subversion --without-apxs --with-apr=/apr/bin/apr-1-config --with-apr-util=/apu/bin/apu-1-config --disable-neon-version-check --with-neon=/neon
...
make
...
make install
...

But in the folder /subversion created only directories /lib and /include, not created /bin.

make command ends with –

/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lexpat
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make: *** [subversion/svn/svn] Error 1

make install command ends with –

/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lexpat
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make: *** [subversion/svn/svn] Error 1

Installed successfully –

• apr
• apr-util
• neon

File sqlite3.c is added to the folder /sqlite-amalgamation/

What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

Your error message is telling you that you are missing a required dependency, the expat XML parsing library. No binary will be created because your compilation is unable to complete the linking step.