Re: svn 1.4.4 --version/--help gives error without dav

On 7/29/07, Karl Berry <karl@freefriends.org> wrote:
> When I built subversion 1.4.4 --without-neon, I get a working svn
> binary, except that svn --version and --help report:
>
> svn: 'libsvn_ra_dav-1.so.0' does not define 'svn_ra_dav__init()': Error string not specified yet
>
> and exit without actually printing any information. As near as I could
> tell, nothing else was broken.
>
> The whole build command was: configure \
> --without-berkeley-db \
> --without-apxs \
> --without-neon \
> LDFLAGS="-Wl,-R -Wl,/usr/local/gnu/lib" \
> CFLAGS=-g \
> && make

Karl, when you run ./configure, does it at some point print

  An appropriate version of neon could not be found, so libsvn_ra_dav
  will not be built. If you want to build libsvn_ra_dav, please either
... etc

? It should print that when you us --without-neon, and the svn that
you're running should not look for libsvn_ra_dav. Or perhaps your svn
is linking against the wrong copy of libsvn_ra? What does 'ldd
path/to/svn' (if you're on Linux) say?

> Running gdb, I found that in subversion/svn/help-cmd.c, the svn_cl__help
> function was returning prematurely, due to the SVN_ERR wrapper around
> svn_ra_print_modules. Removing that SVN_ERR at least allowed --version
> and --help to complete normally, although the ra list is not yet
> actually printed:

Correct, the SVN_ERR macro is how we make sure that real errors (like
this one) are not ignored.

> Perhaps it would be cleaner for the ra_libraries array in ra_loader.c to
> be initialized to only include those ra's actually configured, but that
> change was beyond me.

That is in fact how it is supposed to be. I suspect your svn binary
is linking against the wrong version of libsvn_ra.

--dave

-- 
David Glasser | glasser_at_davidglasser.net | http://www.davidglasser.net/
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