If you have actually read the svn guide you would know that they advise using apache only if there is good reason.

Subversion comes with svnserve.  Please refer to: http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.5/svn.serverconfig.choosing.html

 However for those of us that have good reason to use apache, and would like a sandboxed build for development and deployment this is a great start point.

 Thanks for writing this, I (and I am sure others) really appreciate it, as there is very little about the specifics in the subversion docs.

 Couple of things I have noticed:

The subversion tarball no longer includes the apr and apr-util source, if they ever did, you can find them here: 

http://apr.apache.org/download.cgi

Hope this helps.

 P.S. @Anonymous: The next time you decide, in your wisdom, to leave such helpful comments, could you, please, try and have a slight clue, and possibly take 30 seconds to glance and the excellent subversion documentation.

 Thank-you.