[@chrishajer Participant 17 years, 4 months ago]

I doubt it has anything to do with subversion.

What revision did you check out? I think the trunk release is probably broken (I could be wrong, but I still wouldn’t use it in production) so I would check out tags/0.9.0.2/instead of trunk:

svn co http://svn.automattic.com/bbpress/tags/0.9.0.2/