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The Neon library, used for communication between a Subversion server and +client over HTTP, is usually built as a static library. But it is +subsequently linked into a different shared library. This causes an error +during the build process on 64-bit AMD systems similar to this: + +
++ +++subversion-1.4.6/neon/src/.libs/libneon.a(ne_request.o): relocation R_X86_64_32 against `a local symbol' can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC +/home/jrandom/subversion/subversion-1.4.6/neon/src/.libs/libneon.a: could not read symbols: Bad value +
There was a + +thread on the developers' list about this.
+ +The solution is to supply the "--enable-shared" option to Subversion's +configure script.
+