Compiling svn 1.2.1

Subversion can be downloaded from subversion.tigris.org. After downloading the subversion-1.2.1.tar.gz file

tar xf subversion-1.2.1.tar.gz
cd subversion-1.2.1
./configure --prefix=/work/svn

Note that SVN uses Berkeley DB as its backend. If we dont use Berkeley DB there is some other default that is used. I wasn't able to get SVN compiled with Berk DB even with the --with-berkeley-db option to configure so I am using the default