Hi Stefan, apxs was not installed on my machine but I installed it (I think) using sudo apt-get install apache2-threaded-dev
After that I can pass --with-apxs="/usr/bin/apxs2" to configure But then the sudo make install file fails with apxs:Error: Activation failed for custom /etc/apache2/httpd.conf file.. apxs:Error: At least one `LoadModule' directive already has to exist.. I tried to fix this myself (using Google) for example by adding # Dummy LoadModule directive to aid module installations #LoadModule dummy_module /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_dummy.so to /etc/apache2/httpd.conf. That didn't work. Same message. I also tried steps described in http://subversion.wandisco.com/blogs/compiling-subversion-169-from-source-on-debian-lenny-fsfs-backend-apache2-bug-workaround.html but that also didn't work. I was btw not sure about some of the steps in that article. For example touch /etc/apache2/mods-available/dav_svn.conf. I created such a file, an empty one and then restarted apache2. Still didn't work. Still same message. Onno