We've attempted to ensure that compiling apr, apr-iconv and apr-util distribution tarballs requires nothing more than what comes installed by default on various UNIX platforms.

All you should have to do is this:

 ./configure make make install 

Note that if you are compiling directly from the Subversion repository, you'll need GNU autoconf and GNU libtool installed, and you'll need to run ./buildconf before running the commands listed above.

While APR is available as an RPM for most distributions, it can sometimes be desirable to install and use the canonical version of APR on these systems, replacing the natively provided versions of the packages.

While the APR project does not currently create binary RPMs for the various distributions out there, it is easy to build your own binary RPMs from the canonical APR and APR-Util tarballs as follows.

Creating Source RPMs

The APR and APR-Util source tarballs can be converted into SRPMs as follows: rpmbuild -ts apr-1.4.x.tar.bz2 rpmbuild -ts apr-util-1.4.x.tar.bz2

Building RPMs

The APR RPM can be built directly from the APR source tarball using the following command: rpmbuild -tb apr-1.4.x.tar.bz2 Corresponding "-devel" packages will be required to be installed on your build system prior to building the RPMs, the rpmbuild command will automatically calculate what RPMs are required and will list any dependencies that are missing on your system. These "-devel" packages will not be required after the build is completed, and can be safely removed. If successful, the following RPMs will be created: apr-1.4.x-1.i686.rpm The core APR library. apr-debuginfo-1.4.x-1.i686.rpm Debugging symbols for the library. apr-devel-1.4.x-1.i686.rpm Headers and development files for the library. An APR-Util RPM can be built directly from the APR-Util source tarball using the following command: rpmbuild -tb apr-util-1.4.x.tar.bz2 If successful, the following RPMs will be created: apr-util-1.4.x-1.i686.rpm The core APR-Util library. apr-util-debuginfo-1.4.x-1.i686.rpm Debugging symbols for the library. apr-util-devel-1.4.x-1.i686.rpm Headers and development files for the library. apr-util-dbm-1.4.x-1.i686.rpm DBM driver, dependent on db4. apr-util-pgsql-1.4.x-1.i686.rpm DBD Postgres driver, dependent on postgresql. apr-util-mysql-1.4.x-1.i686.rpm DBD MySQL driver, dependent on mysql. apr-util-sqlite-1.4.x-1.i686.rpm DBD SQLite3 driver, dependent on sqlite3. apr-util-freetds-1.4.x-1.i686.rpm DBD FreeTDS driver, dependent on freetds. apr-util-odbc-1.4.x-1.i686.rpm DBD ODBC driver, dependent on unixODBC. apr-util-ldap-1.4.x-1.i686.rpm LDAP driver, dependent on openldap. apr-util-openssl-1.4.x-1.i686.rpm Crypto OpenSSL driver, dependent on openssl. apr-util-nss-1.4.x-1.i686.rpm Crypto NSS driver, dependent on Mozilla NSS.