Last Updated: February 25, 2016
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Compiling Subversion on Mavericks.

In order to upgrade to Subversion 1.8 on 10.9.2:

1) Grab latest source from http://subversion.apache.org/download/#recommended-release , untar.

2) Update link:
bash sudo ln -s /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/XcodeDefault.xctoolchain /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/OSX10.9.xctoolchain

3) Need to build serf; in Subversion source folder:
bash sh get-deps.sh serf cd serf/ ./configure make sudo make install

4) Build Subversion itself:
bash ./configure --prefix=/usr/local --with-serf=/usr/local/serf make sudo make install

5) Update ~/.bash_profile:
bash export PATH=/usr/local/bin:$PATH