Re: svnadmin error: Can't convert module path to UTF-8

On Wed, 6 Oct 2004 13:38:45 -0400, John Szakmeister
<john@szakmeister.net> wrote:

> > Hmm...Isn't GetModuleFileNameW (the Unicode version of
> > GetModuleFileName) only implemented under Windows NT-based systems?
> > What is it doing in a Win98 MBCS-based system?
>
> I forgot that you were running on Win 98. This may be a problem.

Can you confirm this problem? Are you planning to solve this problem
anytime soon? Do I need to file a bug report?

> ... The BDB backend doesn't work on Win 98

I knew this the hard way. For a while, the 1.1.0-rc3 version of
svnadmin worked. Now I think it's because the alignment of the planets
were correct, and that the (uninitialized) ucs2_path wasn't corrupted
with non-UTF-8 garbage.

> > > This is what I find perplexing. 'svn', 'svnlook', 'svnversion', and
> > > 'svndumpfilter' all call svn_cmdline_init(), and they're fine. What
> > > in the world is making 'svnadmin' and 'svnserve' work differently?

It probably explains why 'svn', 'svnlook', 'svnversion' and
'svndumpfilter' (seemed to) worked. They simply got lucky.

BTW, what is Subversion doing with the module path anyway?

> > Anyway, I'll be downloading the Microsoft Layer for Unicode (MSLU) for
> > Windows 95/98/Me. I'll let you know whether it solves the problem when
> > I get back to work tomorrow.
>
> Let me know if that works, but looking at the documentation, it appears
> that you the binaries need to be linked against another DLL. I don't
> think our Win32 binaries are linked against that particular DLL. :-(

You're right. It's for developers only. I've been living in Java for
too long... :-(

---------------------------------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@subversion.tigris.org
For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@subversion.tigris.org
Received on Thu Oct 7 04:13:51 2004