Mac OS X has svn installed in /usr/bin/ but I also installed the collabnet version in /opt/subversion/bin/.
Checking the versions of both it turns out Apple uses the collabnet version too (version 1.6.16 (r1073529)) and my custom install uses version 1.6.15 (r1038135).
So it seems with Lion Apple finally bundled a more recent version.
I any case my shell PATH settings are setup to check /opt/subversion first.
And yes, Collabnet Subversion is universal binary for Mac OS X.
See http://www.open.collab.net/downloads/community/ .
Actually Apple’s version is also:
robert$ lipo -info /opt/subversion/bin/svn
Architectures in the fat file: /opt/subversion/bin/svn are: ppc7400 i386 x86_64
robert$ lipo -info /usr/bin/svn
Architectures in the fat file: /usr/bin/svn are: x86_64 i386
For anyone interested, the solution to this was to install Subversion-1.6.17-1_10.7.x from Collabnet. Thanks for the suggestion Robert.
Happy days again…
Bevil