git-svn breaks when Perl is upgraded to 5.10

[Reini Urban]

Daniel Hulme schrieb:
> First off, I want to thank you all for providing an environment that
> makes it much less unpleasant to develop software under Windows. In one
> go it provides all the tools I take for granted developing on Unixy
> platforms. But this once, I have a problem:
> 
> I updated Cygwin recently, and noticed that it upgraded Perl to 5.10.
> After I did so, git-svn  (in the git package) stopped working, instead
> complaining on startup that Git.pm was not found in @INC. Indeed, when I
> checked, it was present in the 5.8 directory but not that for 5.10. As
> Git.pm is pure-Perl, as a workaround I copied that across, and ditto
> Error.pm (and its submodules in Error/).

Our new @INC:
     /usr/lib/perl5/5.10/i686-cygwin
     /usr/lib/perl5/5.10
     /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10/i686-cygwin
     /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10
     /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.10/i686-cygwin
     /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.10
     /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.10
     /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8

What is missing is /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8 to make Git.pm and 
Error work out of the box. But I rather wait for Eric when he is back 
from holidays.

Copying Error and Git.pm to vendor_perl/5.10
is fine, but not for svn support.
For Alien::SVN you have fire up cpan Alien::SVN then.

> Even that didn't work, as git-svn started to complain about missing
> SVN:: modules (from the Alien-SVN distribution). These are not
> pure-Perl, so the simple workaround didn't work. I couldn't compile them
> myself without faffing around with the subversion and APR sources, which
> is too involved for a temporary workaround IMO, so I manually reverted
> to Perl 5.8 instead, after which it works fine.

Ah, ok. So this will need a subversion-perl upgrade to 5.10.

> Browsing the cygwin-apps archive, I see that subversion-perl is not on
> the list of packages thought to need upgrading, so I guess it just got
> overlooked and merely wants recompiling and packaging. These things
> happen. As for the git package, the basic functionality is fine, but to
> make git-svn work again I suppose the install locations for the Perl
> modules it ships will want updating.

Thanks for hinting us at upgrading subversion-perl.

Eric, the Git maintainer is currently on a two weeks vacation,
so it will need some time from this side.

> Thanks for your attention. Please CC me on any replies as I am not on
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-- 
Reini Urban
perl

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