dev-util/subversion-1.5.2 was released on 2008-08-30.
Created attachment 164127 [details, diff] Patch to subversion-1.5.2.ebuild
LDFLAGS are now automatically respected when building Subversion SWIG bindings: https://svn.collab.net/viewvc/svn?view=rev&revision=32442 https://svn.collab.net/viewvc/svn?view=rev&revision=32728
Seems to work fine. Thanks :)
Committed to CVS. Thanks for your contribution!