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Re: Failing test svnsync_tests.py 28: copy and reencode non-UTF-8 svn:* props

From: Daniel Shahaf <d.s_at_daniel.shahaf.name>
Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2011 22:16:22 +0300

David Darj wrote on Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 20:55:30 +0200:
> On 2011-09-12 22:55, David Darj wrote:
> >On 2011-09-11 21:40, Johan Corveleyn wrote:
> >>On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 11:09 PM, David Darj<zid_at_alagazam.net> wrote:
> >>>On 2011-09-02 00:02, Johan Corveleyn wrote:
> >>>>On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 11:29 PM, David
> >>>>Darj<zid_at_alagazam.net> wrote:
> >>>>>On 2011-08-28 20:34, Johan Corveleyn wrote:
> >>>>>>Hi,
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>I get a test failure of svnsync_tests.py 28: copy and reencode
> >>>>>>non-UTF-8 svn:* props. The following error appears:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>svnsync: E720087: Can't convert string from 'ISO-8859-3' to 'UTF-8':
> >>>>>>svnsync: E720087: 2011-01-11T20:57:24.206641Z
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>See also fails.log in attachment.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>This happens on 1.7.x as well as on trunk. On Windows XP (Visual C
> >>>>>>Express 2008).
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>ISTR that this error is already there for quite some time, but I
> >>>>>>didn't yet take the time to investigate further (and my build
> >>>>>>environment was broken for some time). I guess it has
> >>>>>>something to do
> >>>>>>with r1084335, which introduced functionality to let
> >>>>>>svnsync translate
> >>>>>>properties that were not encoded in UTF-8.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>Is anyone else seeing this? Any ideas?
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>I've also seen this on my VC6 build for beta3.
> >>>>>Didn't give it any attention then as it's "just a beta".
> >>>>>Would be nice if anyone have any clues to the reason.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>/David a.k.a Alagazam
> >>>>>
> >>>>Any of the other Windows devs seen this? If not, could it be a
> >>>>difference in compiler or OS, or different set of dependencies?
> >>>>
> >>>>Any idea what could be the cause, and what to do about it?
> >>>>
> >>>>FYI, I used these dependencies:
> >>>>Httpd 2.2.19
> >>>>Apr 1.4.5 (as included with httpd)
> >>>>Apr-Util 1.3.12 (as included with httpd)
> >>>>Apr-Iconv 1.2.1 (as included with httpd)
> >>>>Neon 0.29.6
> >>>>OpenSSL 1.0.0d
> >>>>Serf 1.0.0
> >>>>SQLite 3.7.7.1
> >>>>ZLib 1.2.5
> >>>>
> >>>>Build environment: Visual C++ 2008 Express on Windows XP SP3.
> >>>>
> >>>Just for the record...here is my build environment and dependencies:
> >>>(I've seen this on beta3,rc1 and rc2, never built trunk and
> >>>previous betas)
> >>>
> >>>for beta3 and rc1:
> >>>APR 1.4.5
> >>>APR-util 1.3.12
> >>>APR-Iconv 1.2.1
> >>>BDB 4.4.20 (4.8.30 for rc2)
> >>>libintl 0.14.1 (patched as supplied with svn 1.6.x dependencies)
> >>>Neon 0.28.3 (0.29.6 for rc2)
> >>>OpenSSL 0.9.8r (1.0.0d for rc2)
> >>>Serf 0.3.0 (1.0.0 for rc2)
> >>>sqlite 3.7.6.3 (3.7.7.1 for rc2)
> >>>zlib 1.2.5
> >>>
> >>>for rc2 I've updated these:
> >>>BDB 4.8.30
> >>>Neon 0.29.6
> >>>OpenSSL 1.0.0d
> >>>Serf 1.0.0
> >>>sqlite 3.7.7.1
> >>>
> >>>My build environment if WinXP SP3 fully patched, VisualStudio 6 sp 6,
> >>>Platform SDK Feb 2003 (latest for VS6)
> >>Hmm, at least we're both running WinXP SP3, so maybe that has
> >>something to do with it. Maybe WinXP somehow has less language / char
> >>encoding / ... support installed by default, which causes this to
> >>fail.
> >>
> >>And now the good news: I was able to make the test succeed by enabling
> >>"28593 (ISO 8859-3 Latin 3)" in the "Code page conversion tables" of
> >>the OS'es "Regional and Language Options" (see Control Panel |
> >>Regional and Language Options | Advanced).
> >>
> >>So in summary: this is a local failure, which can be fixed by enabling
> >>the right "Code page conversion table" in Windows. Nothing serious to
> >>worry about.
> >>
> >>Though it's still not nice that the absence of this setting causes the
> >>test to fail, especially because it wasn't enabled by default (at
> >>least on my system). Maybe someone on this list knows how to change
> >>the test to make it more tolerant in this regard?
> >>
> >I can confirm this solution fixes the problem.
> >I think the Win-developers signing the rc2 release all use Windows
> >7, maybe it have more code pages installed by default.
> >
> >I also took a quick look in the code and found the following
> >"suspicious" code in libsvn_subr\utf.c (line 303) in function
> >get_xlate_handle_node
> >
> >#if defined(WIN32)
> > apr_err = svn_subr__win32_xlate_open((win32_xlate_t **)&handle,
> >topage, frompage, pool);
> >#else
> > apr_err = apr_xlate_open(&handle, topage, frompage, pool);
> >#endif
> >
> >Why is Windows not using apr_iconv (if available) for this conversion?
> >(something "ivan" introduced in r865724)
> >I will try changing this and see if solves the problem.
> >
> >/David
> >
> >
> I just got a message from a user using my build pointing out this:
>
> ---
> apr-iconv is unnecessary for a win32 subversion since 1.5.0
> See this thread:http://subversion.tigris.org/ds/viewMessage.do?dsForumId=462&dsMessageId=889291
> ---
> I guess he's right.
>
> Reading on Wikipedia about ISO 8859-3 it's only used for Meltese and
> Esperanto, two quite small languages. Maybe changing the used code
> page in the test suite to some more widely used code page, like ISO
> 8859-1 or -15 will make the problem much smaller.
>

+1, is -15 installed by default on your system?
Received on 2011-09-13 21:17:18 CEST

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