So, after a quick rush through the documentation and modifying the spec file to show version: 1.3.0 and release: centos4.2 I tried to build the subversion package using:

rpmbuild -ba subversion.spec

and I got this:

error: Failed build dependencies: apr-devel >= 0.9.5 is needed by subversion-1.3.0-centos4.2.i386 apr-util-devel >= 0.9.5 is needed by subversion-1.3.0-centos4.2.i386

So, since this software is working on my system and since centos seems to backport the essentials I made the leap that apr-0.9.4 was good enough. I went in and altered the spec file again to set the minimum version of apr down to 0.9.5. Now I get:

rpmbuild -ba subversion.spec

... configure: Apache Portable Runtime (APR) library configuration checking for APR... yes checking APR version... 0.9.4 wanted regex is 0.9.[5-9] or 1. configure: error: invalid apr version found error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.51580 (%prep)

So, I was wrong. Is there some easy way to fix this short of installing apr-0.9.5 over 0.9.4?

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