Minor Description
Having worked with Subversion since almost the very beginning, let me say this: the Subversion build procedure is the most brittle process with inter-connected dependencies I have ever seen. It takes me days just to update to the latest Whatsit, which in turn must have the latest Whichisit installed. Nothing ever works with the latest version available for CentOS, so one winds up building half the OS from the original source just to get a tiny component needed by Subversion. I've had some Subversion builds I never could get working, and had to wait several months and then just download the tarball. In fact I couldn't even get HTTP(S) support for Subversion 1.9---and that's wasting half the day trying. See Issue 4588. I'm posting this bug to be helpful, to provide feedback from a user who was once a huge fan of Subversion and who has been using it from the start. I'm not looking for an argument; if you don't agree, you can mark this issue as invalid and go on. But I'll be happy the day (soon, I hope) that I get Subversion off my server and never have to spend days trying to build it again.
Original issue reported by garretwilson