Trac bug #2560

I'm trying to determine the cause of Trac bug #2560:
  http://projects.edgewall.com/trac/ticket/2560

I'm testing on Solaris 8/SPARC with subversion-1.2.3, apr-0.9.11,
apr-util-0.9.11, and python-2.4.2.

Basically, svn_repos_find_root_path() is returning NULL on Solaris
under certain conditions. I've done some debugging and found that
svn_repos_find_root_path() in subversion/libsvn_repos/repos.c calls
svn_utf_cstring_from_utf8() which returns the error:
  Can't create a character converter from 'UTF-8' to native encoding
in err->message. Because of this error, the remaining code in
svn_repos_find_root_path() is always called:
  while (1)
    {
      err = svn_utf_cstring_from_utf8 (&decoded, candidate, pool);
            ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ FAILS
      if (!err && check_repos_path (candidate, pool))
        break;
      svn_error_clear (err);
      if (candidate[0] == '\0' || strcmp(candidate, "/") == 0)
        return NULL;
      candidate = svn_path_dirname (candidate, pool);
    }

The value of candidate through the while loop is thus:
  candidate: /var/svn/test
  candidate: /var/svn
  candidate: /var
  candidate: /
And, the:
      if (candidate[0] == '\0' || strcmp(candidate, "/") == 0)
        return NULL;
succeeds giving us a NULL svn_repos_find_root_path() return value.

It seems svn_utf_cstring_from_utf8() eventually calls apr_xlate_open()
which generates the error. apr-util-0.9.11 is built against
libiconv-1.9.2 and apr_xlate_open() is calling libiconv_open().

What's odd is that I wrote a simple test program to try and duplicate
this error but the test program succeeds:
  #!/opt/TWWfsw/python242/bin/python

  import sys

  from svn import repos
  from trac.versioncontrol.svn_fs import Pool

  path = '/var/svn/test'
  pool = Pool()

  if not repos.svn_repos_find_root_path (path, pool()):
    sys.exit (1)
  if not repos.svn_repos_open (path, pool()):
    sys.exit (1)

Should I bug the APR folks?

-- 
albert chin (china@thewrittenword.com)
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