$ cd subversion $ ./configure <lots of output> checking for swig... none <you didn't see the previous line because of lots of output> <lots of output>
$ make <lots of output> $ make install <lots of output> Great, all went well so far. Now let's build the perl bindings: $ make swig-pl <lots of output> /usr/local/bin/python build/generator/swig/external_runtime.py build.conf none perl none: not found No, the error is not that obvious when you don't know that 'none' should actually be the path to a swig executable...
