+ Provide subversion and required packages apr and apr-util.

+ Installation of subversion may need to be modified to include python and perl
  bindings. I have provided comments to this end, but the code is not active.

var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/subversion/subversion.new/package.py

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+##############################################################################
+# Copyright (c) 2013, Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC.
+# Produced at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
+#
+# This file is part of Spack.
+# Written by Todd Gamblin, tgamblin@llnl.gov, All rights reserved.
+# LLNL-CODE-647188
+#
+# For details, see https://github.com/llnl/spack
+# Please also see the LICENSE file for our notice and the LGPL.
+#
+# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License (as published by
+# the Free Software Foundation) version 2.1 dated February 1999.
+#
+# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
+# WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the IMPLIED WARRANTY OF
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the terms and
+# conditions of the GNU General Public License for more details.
+#
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License
+# along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation,
+# Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA
+##############################################################################
+from spack import *
+#import os
+
+class Subversion(Package):
+    """Apache Subversion - an open source version control system."""
+    homepage  = 'https://subversion.apache.org/'
+    url       = 'http://archive.apache.org/dist/subversion/subversion-1.8.13.tar.gz'
+
+    version('1.8.13',    '8065b3698d799507fb72dd7926ed32b6')
+    version('1.9.3',     'a92bcfaec4e5038f82c74a7b5bbd2f46')
+
+    depends_on('apr')
+    depends_on('apr-util')
+    depends_on('zlib')
+    depends_on('sqlite')
+    #depends_on('swig')
+
+    def install(self, spec, prefix):
+
+        # configure, build, install:
+        # Ref: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/general/subversion.html
+        options = ['--prefix=%s' % prefix]
+        options.append('--with-apr=%s' % spec['apr'].prefix)
+        options.append('--with-apr-util=%s' % spec['apr-util'].prefix)
+        options.append('--with-zlib=%s' % spec['zlib'].prefix)
+        options.append('--with-sqlite=%s' % spec['sqlite'].prefix)
+        #options.append('--with-swig=%s' % spec['swig'].prefix)
+
+        configure(*options)
+        make()
+        make('install')
+        #make('swig-py') # python bindings
+        #make('install-swig-py')
+        #make('swig-pl') # perl bindings
+        #make('install-swig-pl')