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Hey guys, I'm trying to install SVN on CentOS 5. Unfortunately a simple yum install isn't going to work (afaik) because I'm using the DirectAdmin control panel.

When it comes to running 'make' I get this error:

/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lexpat

I'm new to installing things without yum (!) so am a bit lost. Do you have any advice on how to get past this hurdle?

Just to give a little more context to the error;

/apache   -I/usr/include/apache -I/etc/svn-install/subversion-1.6.2/sqlite-amalgamation  -o subversion/svn/util.o -c subversion/svn/util.c
cd subversion/svn && /bin/sh /etc/svn-install/subversion-1.6.2/libtool --tag=CC --silent --mode=link gcc  -g -O2  -g -O2 -pthread   -rpath /usr/lib -o svn  add-cmd.o blame-cmd.o cat-cmd.o changelist-cmd.o checkout-cmd.o cleanup-cmd.o commit-cmd.o conflict-callbacks.o copy-cmd.o delete-cmd.o diff-cmd.o export-cmd.o help-cmd.o import-cmd.o info-cmd.o list-cmd.o lock-cmd.o log-cmd.o main.o merge-cmd.o mergeinfo-cmd.o mkdir-cmd.o move-cmd.o notify.o propdel-cmd.o propedit-cmd.o propget-cmd.o proplist-cmd.o props.o propset-cmd.o resolve-cmd.o resolved-cmd.o revert-cmd.o status-cmd.o status.o switch-cmd.o tree-conflicts.o unlock-cmd.o update-cmd.o util.o ../../subversion/libsvn_client/libsvn_client-1.la ../../subversion/libsvn_wc/libsvn_wc-1.la ../../subversion/libsvn_ra/libsvn_ra-1.la ../../subversion/libsvn_delta/libsvn_delta-1.la ../../subversion/libsvn_diff/libsvn_diff-1.la ../../subversion/libsvn_subr/libsvn_subr-1.la /etc/httpd/lib/libaprutil-1.la  -lexpat /etc/httpd/lib/libapr-1.la -luuid -lrt -lcrypt  -lpthread -ldl
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lexpat
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make: *** [subversion/svn/svn] Error 1

Thanks!

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You are missing the expat development package

Try

yum install expat-devel

and rerun make after that

though I doubt this question belongs on SF

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  • sorry :( is there another stack overflow / serverfault-type website it would be better on?
    – furnace
    Jun 6, 2009 at 18:08
  • Don't worry about it too much ;-) Did you manage to compile it yet?
    – wzzrd
    Jun 6, 2009 at 19:49
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I might suggest going to the official Subversion site (http://subversion.tigris.org/project_packages.html). There you get a link to collabNet BINARY packages for Redhat versions 4,5 and others.

Since CentOS is really a recompilation of Redhat AS sources you should have no problem using the RedHat binary packages. Its also nice as all the necessary binaries, modules and such are included.