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Re: subversion-perl missing

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Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Date
Sep 26, 2011, 14:54 UTC
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<4E809235.2080401@drmicha.warpmail.net>
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Georg-Johann Lay venit, vidit, dixit 26.09.2011 16:51:
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> Michael J Gruber schrieb:
>> Georg-Johann Lay venit, vidit, dixit 26.09.2011 15:41:
>>> 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 :|
>>> Is it a part of SVN (couln't find it there) or of perl?
> 
> 
> I could find
> http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/subversion/trunk/subversion/bindings/swig/INSTALL
> and hope that explains the trick so that a noob like me doesn't get lost...

That requires you to build swig and subversion, which I thought you wanted to avoid. But if that does not scare you - by all means go ahead :)

> Many, many thanks for your help Michael!
> 
> Johann

Cheers, Michael

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