From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
To: Andrew Keller <andrew@kellerfarm.com>
Cc: Git List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Installing git-svn on Linux without root
Date: Sat, 04 Feb 2012 03:32:18 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3mx8yltq9.fsf@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <35EF289A-1408-4B70-A25F-8194A8884A4D@kellerfarm.com>
Andrew Keller <andrew@kellerfarm.com> writes:
> I am attempting to install git, including the ability to access
> subversion repositories on a Linux machine. I do not have root
> access on the machine, so I prepended my PATH with a folder in my
> home directory.
>
> Installing Git worked just fine, but when I try to clone a
> subversion repository, I get:
>
> $ git svn clone file:///svn --prefix=svn/ --no-metadata --trunk=dba/trunk --branches=dba/branches --tags=dba/tags dba
> Initialized empty Git repository in /home/kelleran/Documents/togit/converted/dba/.git/
> Can't locate SVN/Core.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /homedirs/kelleran/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8 /usr/lib64/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/x86_64-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl /usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/x86_64-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl /usr/lib64/perl5/5.8.8/x86_64-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8 .) at /homedirs/kelleran/local/libexec/git-core/git-svn line 41.
>
> Google suggested that the above error could be due to missing perl
> bindings. So, I installed swig, and followed the instructions for
> installing the perl bindings:
> http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/subversion/trunk/subversion/bindings/swig/INSTALL
> (I used the alternate build steps, since I had to set the prefix).
>
> Unfortunately, I still get exactly the same error. So, I looked to
> see whether or not the missing library was installed:
>
> $ find ~/local -iname Core.pm
> /homedirs/kelleran/local/lib64/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/x86_64-linux-thread-multi/SVN/Core.pm
>
> So, the module does exist, but not in a location included by @INC.
>From the above error message it looks like
/homedirs/kelleran/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8
is in @INC, but
/homedirs/kelleran/local/lib64/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/x86_64-linux-thread-multi/
is not. Strange.
Do you use local::lib?
> This sounds like a simple misconfiguration during the installation
> on my part, but after reading the manuals and searching the web, I
> was unable to find a parameter that gets git to be able to see the
> perl bindings.
Add missing directory to PATH-like PERL5LIB environment variable
before running git-svn.
--
Jakub Narebski
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-02-04 11:32 UTC|newest]
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2012-02-04 2:10 Installing git-svn on Linux without root Andrew Keller
2012-02-04 11:32 ` Jakub Narebski [this message]
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2012-02-05 10:11 ` Jakub Narebski
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