Re: viewcvs and error handling in swig python bindings

Olaf Hering wrote:
> Hello,
>
> the viewcvs cvs from yesterday does not work for some reason. I
> debugged
> it and it misses some symbol. The function that does resolve these
> syms
> does either return a pointer or NULL. In my case, the NULL was passed
> down to other functions, a segfault was the result.
> that leads to two questions:
>
> Who must provide "SWIGTYPE_p_svn_log_changed_path_t"?
> Why does svn_swig_py_thunk_log_receiver() not verify the
> SWIG_TypeQuery() return value?

A workaround for this bug is to set "show_changed_paths = 0" in viewcvs.conf.
There's also a fix which hasn't been committed yet but is posted here:

http://subversion.tigris.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=dev&msgNo=40022

And there's another description of the problem here:

http://mailman.lyra.org/pipermail/viewcvs-dev/2003-July/001075.html

- Russ

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Received on Sun Jul 13 22:51:12 2003