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Re: subversion-perl missing

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Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Date
Sep 26, 2011, 14:18 UTC
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Georg-Johann Lay venit, vidit, dixit 26.09.2011 15:41:
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> Michael J Gruber schrieb:
>> Georg-Johann Lay venit, vidit, dixit 26.09.2011 13:48:
>>> Hi, I just downloaded git and built from source, version is
>>>
>>> git version 1.7.6.4
>>>
>>> I am particularly interested in git-svn, but running it I get complaints
>>>
>>> Initialized empty Git repository in /local/Downloads/v4.5.x/.git/
>>> Can't locate SVN/Core.pm in @INC (@INC contains:
>>> /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10.0/i586-linux-thread-multi
>>> /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10.0
>>> /usr/lib/perl5/5.10.0/i586-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/5.10.0
>>> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10.0/i586-linux-thread-multi
>>> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10.0
>>> /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.10.0/i586-linux-thread-multi
>>> /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.10.0 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl .) at
>>> /usr/local/libexec/git-core/git-svn line 42
>>>
>>> I found out that a module like subversion-perl is missing, but installing it
>>> via OpenSuse 1.11 would downgrade my SVN installation, so I skipped that.
>>
>> So, where did you get your svn from? If you compiled it yourself, you
>> should rebuild it with the perl bindings. Make sure you note where you
>> install this to - you may have to adjust your PERL5LIB.
> 
> Hi Michael
> 
> svn identifies itself as
> 
>  > svn --version
> 
> svn, version 1.6.2 (r37639)
>    compiled Jun 19 2009, 12:21:15
> 
> Copyright (C) 2000-2009 CollabNet.
> Subversion is open source software, see http://subversion.tigris.org/
> This product includes software developed by CollabNet (http://www.Collab.Net/).
> 
> The following repository access (RA) modules are available:
> 
> * ra_neon : Module for accessing a repository via WebDAV protocol using Neon.
>   - handles 'http' scheme
>   - handles 'https' scheme
> * ra_svn : Module for accessing a repository using the svn network protocol.
>   - with Cyrus SASL authentication
>   - handles 'svn' scheme
> * ra_local : Module for accessing a repository on local disk.
>   - handles 'file' scheme
> 
> and its installed in
> 
>  > which svn
> 
> /usr/bin/svn
> 
>  > echo $PERL5LIB
> 
> <empty>
> 
> so looks like plain vanilla installation/build.
> 
> Is "perl bindings" the "subversion-perl" package (which likes to downgrade my
> svn upon installing in yast)?

Yes, subversion-perl are the perl bindings, and if your distro has mismatching versions of subversion and subversion perl, then they have a problem, sorry :|

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> Is it a part of SVN (couln't find it there) or of perl?
> 
>  > perl --version    says:
> 
> This is perl, v5.10.0 built for i586-linux-thread-multi
> 
> Copyright 1987-2007, Larry Wall
> ...
> 
>>> Thus, being no admin and no perl guy, I am stuck now and am asking here for
>>> some kind help, being very well aware that it's not a git issue but just about
>>> getting some prerequisite for git.
>>>
>>> Where do I have to go to get the svn+perl stuff? Couldn't locate anything like
>>> that in subversion.tigris.org, so that I am stuck and need some hints on how to
>>> proceed.
>>>
>>> Many thanks,
>>>
>>> Johann
> 
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