subversion-perl needs to be updated with current Perl

[Jon Turney]

On 07/07/2025 10:22, Andrey Repin via Cygwin wrote:
> Greetings, Andrey Repin via Cygwin!
> 
>> Trying to rebuild it myself.
>> After installing dependencies, the errors similar to
> 
>> Libtool helper path not found (try setting the LIBTOOL_M4 environment variable)
>>    expected at: '/bin/../share/aclocal'
> 
>> were fixed by setting some variables
> 
>> LIBTOOL_CONFIG=/usr/share/libtool/build-aux
>> LIBTOOL_M4=/usr/share/aclocal
>> export LIBTOOL_CONFIG LIBTOOL_M4
> 
>> But now, it can't find the installed BDB 5.3.28:
> 
>> configure: error: Berkeley DB 4.0.14 or 5.x wasn't found.
> 
>> Subversion mailing list suggests that BDB back-end is deprecated.
>> I've removed the `--with-berkeley-db` key from cygport file for now, but it
>> would probably be better to outright disable the support.

Thanks very much for looking into this!

>> But now the error came at the end of building:
> 
>>   undefined reference to `SWIG_snprintf'
> 
>> The swig package is installed.
>> What could be wrong?

This is apparently a bug in the version of swig currently provide (See [1]).

I've updated that.

[1] https://github.com/swig/swig/issues/2751

> After lowering swig version to v3 and cleaning the build directory, it all
> built proper. Now, if anybody could help me make an INI file for it…

If you post your updated subversion.cygport (or a patch for it) here (or 
to the cygwin-apps list), I'll get it built and uploaded.