Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote on Sun, Apr 07, 2013 at 09:37:48 -0400: > My SRPM building tools have been updated to match, at: > https://github.com/nkadel/subversion-1.6.21-srpm > and > https://github.com/nkadel/subversion-1.7.9-srpm > > Minor changes include the recent discard of support for RHEL 4 in the > subverson-1.7.x build structure, and switching from using "autogen.sh" to > simply "aclocal" and "autoconf" instead of building a custom backported > Python locally on older systems, just to get the ./configure to work.
Couldn't you just use the 'configure' script in the tarball? If you do that, neither autoconf nor python is required.