annoying "Attempt to add tree conflict that already exists" [ was "back-end fsfs DB corruption? - attempt to merge uncovering it" ]

[ subj line changed as requested ]

On Sep 15, 2009, at 4:31 PM, Stefan Sperling wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 03:56:34PM -0500, Paul Hammant wrote:
>> We rebuild with --prefix pointing to the root of the libsvn_*
>> directories.
>
> Which directory do you mean?
> The installation prefix should point to a new, empty directory,
> or to an existing directory which already contains bin/ and lib/
> and such. For example:
> ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/subversion-1.6.5
> or
> ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/
>

./configure --prefix=/path/to/build/dir/subversion

I grant you that's not an empty directly, thus will try everything
once more.

> Don't use --prefix=/usr or you will overwrite files installed
> by the distribution's package management system.
>
>> It is the same though, it halts at the same file.
>
> What does the command
> which svn
> say, and what does
> ldd `which svn`
> say?

> ldd subversion/svn/svn
   not a dynamic executable
> which svn
   /usr/bin/svn

We're not using the /usr/bin/svn one for the tests we're doing. We're
hard coding the path to the recently built one.

- Paul

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