If you installed APR, you don't need an apr/ source tree in the svn build tree - that would build and use _that_ APR rather than use the installed one.
Eric S. Raymond wrote on Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 19:43:43 -0500: > Got through installing apr, apr-utils, and the sqlite3 failure. > The apr portion of the build fails. > > ------ making all in apr

