new Berkeley DB 3.3.11 released, but we wait till post-M3

[kf...@collab.net]

Berkeley DB has released version 3.3.11.  Subversion has been at 3.2.9
for some time now.  You can see the changes between them here:

   http://www.sleepycat.com/update/3.3.11/if.3.3.11.html

For our purposes, the most significant change (aside from bug fixes)
is this one:

   [...]
   Configuration, Documentation, Portability and Build Changes:
   1. Upgrade to config.guess version 1.193, config.sub version 1.207,
      autoconf version 2.50. 
   [...]

Unfortunately, Subversion's build system doesn't work with Autoconf
2.50 yet.  Neither does APR's build system; Subversion is ready to
upgrade when APR does, but it doesn't make much sense for Subversion
to do so before APR.  There has been some talk on the APR dev list
about this, but no one is known to be working on it.  Mo DeJong
submitted patches to make APR work with both old and new Autoconfs, I
believe, but no APR developer has reviewed and applied them yet.

Therefore, for M3, Subversion will ugrade neither Berkeley nor
Autoconf.  But we should take care of this soon after M3 (and
volunteers are welcome, though if one of those volunteers is an APR
developer who is competent in configuration stuff, that would be even
better! :-) ).

-Karl

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