Upgrade Subversion 1.4.3 to 1.5.2 on Debian (hosted account)

Question

I'm trying to upgrade my subversion server (I have it hosted with Dreamhost)

This is what I run:

• wget http://subversion.tigris.org/downloads/subversion-1.5.2.tar.bz2
• wget http://subversion.tigris.org/downloads/subversion-deps-1.5.2.tar.bz2
• tar -xjf subversion-1.5.2.tar.bz2
• tar -xjf subversion-deps-1.5.2.tar.bz2
• cd subversion-1.5.2
• ./configure --prefix=/usr/bin --with-libs=/usr/bin/openssl --with-ssl

But I'm unable to continue any further because of this error:

• checking for C compiler default output file name...
• configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables
• See `config.log' for more details.
• configure failed for neon

Since I'm no expert with Linux, I'm not sure how to proceed.

So the question is: what is the best way to upgrade (given the constraints of being with this hosted provider).

Update:

Contents of config.log can be seen here (don't know the best way to show files here at SO)

Update:

I seem to have been looking at the wrong config.log file.
I probably should have been looking at subversion.1.5.2/neon/config.log

Answer 1

You'll need to build your own copy under your own account.

mkdir ~/src
cd ~/src
wget http://subversion.tigris.org/downloads/subversion-1.5.2.tar.bz2
wget http://subversion.tigris.org/downloads/subversion-deps-1.5.2.tar.bz2
tar -xjf subversion-1.5.2.tar.bz2
tar -xjf subversion-deps-1.5.2.tar.bz2
cd subversion-1.5.2
./configure --prefix=/home/$USER --with-ssl
make
make install

You'll also need to alter your path for this to work if you haven't already.