I was trying to setup ViewVC to display both my public cvs and subversion repositories. It meant I had compile the swig-py bindings. Subversion 1.3.0 requires SWIG 1.3.24 or later. Or so they say…

I'm using 1.3.27, yet ./configure kept on barfing. Apparently the script does some voodoo magic to parse the current version number. It's failing miserably.

Here is what I did to get it to compile:

cp -p configure configure.orig
sed -e 's/"103025"/"103027"/g' configure.orig > configure

From then on, the regular compilations steps worked:

./configure --with-apr=/usr/local/apache --with-apr-util=/usr/local/apache
make
make install
make swig-py
make install-swig-py
echo /usr/local/lib/svn-python > /usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/subversion.pth