Based on Brane's email from yesterday, I did a build for Subversion on the Mac, with Homebrew and XCode installed already.
brew install apr apr-util httpd serf zlib berkeley-db swig lz4 utf8proc # These two were necessary for me, for some reason # Although handing flags to ./configure was an alternative brew link --force apr brew link --force apr-util ./autogen.sh ./configure make && make install Exhaustive test suites and language-binding builds are another thing altogether - this was basic build of binaries. The list of brew installs were the ones needed by me to get over the line. There's other that may have been needed for noobs, that I already had installed. Versions after Brew's actions: apr 1.6.3 apr-util 1.6.1_1 httpd 2.4.29_1 serf 0.8.1 zlib 1.2.11 berkeley-db 6.2.32 swig 3.0.12 lz4 1.8.1.2 utf8proc 2.1 - ph