Apache projects now use Subversion for version control. It looks there is no CVS interface, at least from the web pages like http://jakarta.apache.org/site/cvsindex.html. To build Tomcat from source, we need many related projects in binary and source. To obtain a minor Apache/Jakarta project, it looks we need to create a Subversion. At least, the developer of Subversion considers it is a successor of CVS. It is a native program, thus we need to obtain source and compile it. Subversion itself depends on some apache projects, like APR... http://apr.apache.org/ http://apache.acnova.com/apr/apr-1.2.2.tar.gz APR compilation, installation was not so difficult. ** download http://subversion.tigris.org/ If APR is available, configure and make looks to work, but it shows message saying it's better to configure APR with Berkley DB. http://www.sleepycat.com/index.html