diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/subversion/subversion_1.14.5.bb b/meta/recipes-devtools/subversion/subversion_1.14.5.bb
index 13bec4ad5956..4545ccf6c532 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/subversion/subversion_1.14.5.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/subversion/subversion_1.14.5.bb
@@ -49,6 +49,10 @@ do_configure:prepend () {
     cp -f ${STAGING_DATADIR}/aclocal/libtool.m4 ${STAGING_DATADIR}/aclocal/lt*.m4 ${S}/build/
 }
 
+do_install:append() {
+    echo "unknown" > ${D}${includedir}/subversion-1/svn-revision.txt
+}
+
 #| x86_64-linux-libtool: install: warning: `/home/pokybuild/yocto-autobuilder/yocto-worker/nightly-qa-logrotate/build/build/tmp/work/x86_64-linux/subversion-native/1.8.9-r0/build/subversion/libsvn_ra_local/libsvn_ra_local-1.la' has not been installed in `/home/pokybuild/yocto-autobuilder/yocto-worker/nightly-qa-logrotate/build/build/tmp/sysroots/x86_64-linux/usr/lib'| x86_64-linux-libtool: install: warning: `/home/pokybuild/yocto-autobuilder/yocto-worker/nightly-qa-logrotate/build/build/tmp/work/x86_64-linux/subversion-native/1.8.9-r0/build/subversion/libsvn_repos/libsvn_repos-1.la' has not been installed in `/home/pokybuild/yocto-autobuilder/yocto-worker/nightly-qa-logrotate/build/build/tmp/sysroots/x86_64-linux/usr/lib'| /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lsvn_delta-1| collect2: ld returned 1 exit status| x86_64-linux-libtool: install: warning: `/home/pokybuild/yocto-autobuilder/yocto-worker/nightly-qa-logrotate/build/build/tmp/work/x86_64-linux/subversion-native/1.8.9-r0/build/subversion/libsvn_ra_svn/libsvn_ra_svn-1.la' has not been installed in `/home/pokybuild/yocto-autobuilder/yocto-worker/nightly-qa-logrotate/build/build/tmp/sysroots/x86_64-linux/usr/lib'| x86_64-linux-libtool: install: warning: `/home/pokybuild/yocto-autobuilder/yocto-worker/nightly-qa-logrotate/build/build/tmp/work/x86_64-linux/subversion-native/1.8.9-r0/build/subversion/libsvn_ra_serf/libsvn_ra_serf-1.la' has not been installed in `/home/pokybuild/yocto-autobuilder/yocto-worker/nightly-qa-logrotate/build/build/tmp/sysroots/x86_64-linux/usr/lib'
 #| x86_64-linux-libtool: install: error: relink `libsvn_ra_serf-1.la' with the above command before installing it
 #| x86_64-linux-libtool: install: warning: `../../subversion/libsvn_repos/libsvn_repos-1.la' has not been installed in `/home/pokybuild/yocto-autobuilder/yocto-worker/nightly-qa-logrotate/build/build/tmp/sysroots/x86_64-linux/usr/lib'