diff --git a/dev-util/subversion/subversion-1.5.4-haiku.diff b/dev-util/subversion/subversion-1.5.4-haiku.diff
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..04563f7bb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dev-util/subversion/subversion-1.5.4-haiku.diff
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+diff -urN subversion-1.5.4/configure.ac subversion-1.5.4-haiku/configure.ac
+--- subversion-1.5.4/configure.ac	2008-12-15 00:35:49.000000000 -0800
++++ subversion-1.5.4-haiku/configure.ac	2008-12-15 00:32:30.000000000 -0800
+@@ -220,6 +220,7 @@
+ 
+ # Berkeley DB on SCO OpenServer needs -lsocket
+ AC_CHECK_LIB(socket, socket)
++AC_CHECK_LIB(network, socket)
+ 
+ # Build the BDB filesystem library only if we have an appropriate
+ # version of Berkeley DB.