svn / subversion does not print

gds gds@chartertn.net
Mon May 12 21:06:00 GMT 2008


gds wrote:
> David Rothenberger wrote:
>> On 5/12/2008 12:32 PM, gds wrote:
>>> No svn commands print, e.g., "svn help" comes up blank with no errors 
>>> printed. This happened before and I wrote down in notebook "svn needs 
>>> crypto pkg to run...". However, did not write down which "crypto" 
>>> package. Installing the "crypt" cygwin package did not help.
>>>
>>> This only started after a cygwin upgrade and reboot. Before that it 
>>> worked fine. Any ideas what I need to do?
>>
>> My WAG is that you're missing a DLL. Try running "cygcheck `which 
>> svn`" and look for messages about missing DLLs. If you find any, 
>> please report back to the list so the setup.hint can be fixed.
>>
> 
> Yes, strace and cygcheck both indicate that cygexpat-0.dll is missing 
> and should be in /bin. Don't see it there. Just see an "expat" package 
> in the installer, no libexpat0 as pointed out here:
> 
> http://www.nabble.com/-PACKAGING-ERROR--subversion-1.4.5-2-td16959043.html
> 
> Sounds like there is a packaging problem.
> 
> Tried going back to svn 1.4.5-1 instead of latest 1.4.5-2 with same result.
> 

I was wrong, there is a libexpat0 (I was looking for "libxpat0"). 
Re-installing
it seems to fix the problem.



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