git-svn fails to fetch repository

git-svn fails to fetch repository

[Vladimir Pouzanov]

Hi all,

I'm trying to fetch svn repository:
git svn clone http://qsb-mac.googlecode.com/svn/trunk qsb-mac

This one fails at random time at:
Temp file with moniker ' at /opt/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/Git.pm
line 1011.

I know nothing about perl, so can't make anything out of that. Any hints?

Running Git 1.6.1, perl 5.8.8, OSX 10.5.6

PS: Please CC me on answer.

Re: git-svn fails to fetch repository

[Vladimir Pouzanov]

Also just tried on linux box (git 1.6.0.4, perl 5.8.8). Got all the revisions
but git segfaulted at the end:
...
r21 = e839272549fd746cf45542a7aa6cb151ae3813da (trunk)
Checked out HEAD:
  http://qsb-mac.googlecode.com/svn/trunk r21
Segmentation fault

Re: git-svn fails to fetch repository

[Michael J Gruber]

Vladimir Pouzanov venit, vidit, dixit 01/13/09 16:03:
> Also just tried on linux box (git 1.6.0.4, perl 5.8.8). Got all the revisions
> but git segfaulted at the end:
> ...
> r21 = e839272549fd746cf45542a7aa6cb151ae3813da (trunk)
> Checked out HEAD:
>   http://qsb-mac.googlecode.com/svn/trunk r21
> Segmentation fault

I'm getting
...
r21 = e839272549fd746cf45542a7aa6cb151ae3813da (git-svn)
Checked out HEAD:
  http://qsb-mac.googlecode.com/svn/trunk r21

This is with git 1.6.1rc4 (yeah I should have updated), perl 5.8.8 and
svn 1.4.6 on Linux. Same with git 1.6.0.6, perl 5.10.0 and svn 1.5.4 on
another box. The one git-svn change between 1.6.0.4 and 1.6.0.6 should
not matter because you don't have branches. What's your svn version?

Michael

Re: git-svn fails to fetch repository

[Vladimir Pouzanov]

Michael J Gruber <git <at> drmicha.warpmail.net> writes:
> This is with git 1.6.1rc4 (yeah I should have updated), perl 5.8.8 and
> svn 1.4.6 on Linux. Same with git 1.6.0.6, perl 5.10.0 and svn 1.5.4 on
> another box. The one git-svn change between 1.6.0.4 and 1.6.0.6 should
> not matter because you don't have branches. What's your svn version?

svn, version 1.5.5 (r34862) on OSX (where perl fails with error) and
svn, version 1.5.0 (Release Candidate 
5) on Linux
(where perl segfaults somewhere in apr).

Re: git-svn fails to fetch repository

[Björn Steinbrink]

On 2009.01.13 19:01:28 +0000, Vladimir Pouzanov wrote:
> Michael J Gruber <git <at> drmicha.warpmail.net> writes:
> > This is with git 1.6.1rc4 (yeah I should have updated), perl 5.8.8 and
> > svn 1.4.6 on Linux. Same with git 1.6.0.6, perl 5.10.0 and svn 1.5.4 on
> > another box. The one git-svn change between 1.6.0.4 and 1.6.0.6 should
> > not matter because you don't have branches. What's your svn version?
> 
> svn, version 1.5.5 (r34862) on OSX (where perl fails with error) and
> svn, version 1.5.0 (Release Candidate 
> 5) on Linux
> (where perl segfaults somewhere in apr).

Is that Linux box using Gentoo? If so, try emerging subversion with -dso
in your build flags.

Cloning the svn repo you mentioned works fine with
git-svn version 1.6.1.40.g8ea6a (svn 1.5.1)

(On debian sid)

Björn

Re: git-svn fails to fetch repository

[Vladimir Pouzanov]

Björn Steinbrink <B.Steinbrink <at> gmx.de> writes:
> Is that Linux box using Gentoo? If so, try emerging subversion with -dso
> in your build flags.

Yeah, that's gentoo. Will try rebuilding svn now. Any hints about OSX
perl problem?

Re: git-svn fails to fetch repository

[Jay Soffian]

On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 3:46 PM, Vladimir Pouzanov <farcaller@gmail.com> wrote:
> Björn Steinbrink <B.Steinbrink <at> gmx.de> writes:
>> Is that Linux box using Gentoo? If so, try emerging subversion with -dso
>> in your build flags.
>
> Yeah, that's gentoo. Will try rebuilding svn now. Any hints about OSX
> perl problem?

Your original email doesn't appear to provide the complete error
message. I'm on OS X 10.5.6 (Intel), git 1.6.1.77.g81ea1, system perl
(/usr/bin/perl - 5.8.8) and I'm able to clone okay:

$ which git
/opt/git/bin/git
$ git version
git version 1.6.1.77.g81ea1
$ git svn clone http://qsb-mac.googlecode.com/svn/trunk qsb-mac
...
Checked out HEAD:
  http://qsb-mac.googlecode.com/svn/trunk r21

j.

Re: git-svn fails to fetch repository

[Vladimir Pouzanov]

Jay Soffian <jaysoffian <at> gmail.com> writes:
> Your original email doesn't appear to provide the complete error
> message. I'm on OS X 10.5.6 (Intel), git 1.6.1.77.g81ea1, system perl
> (/usr/bin/perl - 5.8.8) and I'm able to clone okay:

$ git version
git version 1.6.1
$ git svn clone http://qsb-mac.googlecode.com/svn/trunk qsb-mac
Initialized empty Git repository in /Users/farcaller/temp/qsb-mac/.git/
r1 = 810fe584c48b884460b5403a28bc61d872452b93 (git-svn)
	A	externals/BSJSONAdditions/NSDictionary+BSJSONAdditions.m
	A	externals/BSJSONAdditions/Example/Unit Tests/Test
Files/json_test_valid_01.txt
	A	externals/BSJSONAdditions/Example/Unit Tests/Test
Files/json_test_valid_02.txt
	A	externals/BSJSONAdditions/Example/version.plist
	A	externals/BSJSONAdditions/Example/main.m
	A	externals/BSJSONAdditions/Example/Unit Tests/Test
Files/json_test_valid_03.txt
	A	externals/BSJSONAdditions/NSArray+BSJSONAdditions.m
	A	externals/BSJSONAdditions/BSJSON.h
	A	externals/BSJSONAdditions/NSDictionary+BSJSONAdditions.h
Temp file with moniker ' at /opt/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/Git.pm line
1011.

Git, subversion and perl are from macports:
$ port info perl5
perl5 @5.8.8, Revision 2 (lang)

$ port info git-core
git-core @1.6.1 (devel)
Variants:    bash_completion, doc, gitweb, svn

$ port info subversion
subversion @1.5.5 (devel)
Variants:    bash_completion, (-)darwin_7, mac_os_x_server_mod_dav_svn,
mod_dav_svn, no_bdb, no_neon, tools, unicode_path, (-)universal

Re: git-svn fails to fetch repository

[Jay Soffian]

On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 4:16 PM, Vladimir Pouzanov <farcaller@gmail.com> wrote:
> Temp file with moniker ' at /opt/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/Git.pm line
> 1011.

Ah "throw Error::Simple(...)" w/multiple arguments does not work as
the caller thought. Can you manually edit
/opt/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/Git.pm and edit lines 1011 and
1012. So instead of:

                if ($TEMP_FILES{$$temp_fd}{locked}) {
                        throw Error::Simple("Temp file with moniker '",
                                $name, "' already in use");
                }

It will look like:

                if ($TEMP_FILES{$$temp_fd}{locked}) {
                        throw Error::Simple("Temp file with moniker '" .
                                $name . "' already in use");
                }

(i.e., replace the commas with dots.)

Perhaps this will help in tracking down the problem.

j.

Re: git-svn fails to fetch repository

[Vladimir Pouzanov]

Jay Soffian <jaysoffian <at> gmail.com> writes:
> Perhaps this will help in tracking down the problem.

$ git svn clone http://qsb-mac.googlecode.com/svn/trunk qsb-mac
Initialized empty Git repository in /Users/farcaller/temp/qsb-mac/.git/
r1 = 810fe584c48b884460b5403a28bc61d872452b93 (git-svn)
Temp file with moniker 'svn_delta' already in use at /opt/local/lib/perl5/
site_perl/5.8.8/Git.pm line 1011.

Re: git-svn fails to fetch repository

[Jay Soffian]

On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 4:34 PM, Vladimir Pouzanov <farcaller@gmail.com> wrote:
> Jay Soffian <jaysoffian <at> gmail.com> writes:
>> Perhaps this will help in tracking down the problem.
>
> $ git svn clone http://qsb-mac.googlecode.com/svn/trunk qsb-mac
> Initialized empty Git repository in /Users/farcaller/temp/qsb-mac/.git/
> r1 = 810fe584c48b884460b5403a28bc61d872452b93 (git-svn)
> Temp file with moniker 'svn_delta' already in use at /opt/local/lib/perl5/
> site_perl/5.8.8/Git.pm line 1011.

Hrmm, to me that doesn't help very much. Perhaps the author of git-svn
(cc'd) might have an idea.

BTW, I installed git-core via DarwinPorts and I can clone w/that
version as well.

$ port info --name --version  git-core subversion perl5.8
version: 1.6.1
name: git-core
--
version: 1.5.5
name: subversion
--
version: 5.8.9
name: perl5.8

I was hoping it would fail for me so I could poke and prod.

j.

Re: git-svn fails to fetch repository

[Jay Soffian]

On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 4:34 PM, Vladimir Pouzanov <farcaller@gmail.com> wrote:
> Jay Soffian <jaysoffian <at> gmail.com> writes:
>> Perhaps this will help in tracking down the problem.
>
> $ git svn clone http://qsb-mac.googlecode.com/svn/trunk qsb-mac
> Initialized empty Git repository in /Users/farcaller/temp/qsb-mac/.git/
> r1 = 810fe584c48b884460b5403a28bc61d872452b93 (git-svn)
> Temp file with moniker 'svn_delta' already in use at /opt/local/lib/perl5/
> site_perl/5.8.8/Git.pm line 1011.

One more thing to try. Edit your Git.pm and make the top of
_temp_cache() look like the following:

sub _temp_cache {
	my ($self, $name) = _maybe_self(@_);
	use Carp qw(longmess);
	warn longmess() if $name eq "svn_delta";

So you're adding the "use Carp..." and "warn..." lines.

Then try the import again. That should at least show why the svn_delta
temp file is being acquired twice.

(Yes, this is the printf school of debugging...)

j.

Re: git-svn fails to fetch repository

[Vladimir Pouzanov]

Jay Soffian <jaysoffian <at> gmail.com> writes:
> So you're adding the "use Carp..." and "warn..." lines.
> 
> Then try the import again. That should at least show why the svn_delta
> temp file is being acquired twice.

Output is pretty long so I've put in on pastebin:
http://pastebin.com/m210be905

Re: git-svn fails to fetch repository

[Jay Soffian]

On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 3:32 AM, Vladimir Pouzanov <farcaller@gmail.com> wrote:
> Jay Soffian <jaysoffian <at> gmail.com> writes:
>> So you're adding the "use Carp..." and "warn..." lines.
>>
>> Then try the import again. That should at least show why the svn_delta
>> temp file is being acquired twice.
>
> Output is pretty long so I've put in on pastebin:
> http://pastebin.com/m210be905

Okay, this is beyond me. git-svn (among other things) implements a
so-called delta editor (part of the subversion API). The driver for
that editor is apparently calling the editor's apply_textdelta()
method twice in a row w/o an intervening call to the editor's
close_file() method.

I don't understand when and/or why it would do this. This part of the
Subversion API seems not that well documented, and I got lost trying
to follow all the indirections in the Subversion source code (esp
w/the swig'ified Perl bindings). AFAICT, this should not be happening.

I could ask you to insert some more debugging statements to try to
track it to a specific file (or files), but I think at this point I'll
going to wait to see if the git-svn author has any ideas.

BTW, it doesn't help any that the order that files are checked out
seems not to be consistent. Not only is my git-svn clone working, the
order my files are checked out in is different from yours.

Oh, one other thing I don't understand is why the debugging output is
now showing that some files are being added for you (the lines
beginning with \tA). Before you weren't getting that. I had thought
these lines might be getting lost in stdout buffering, but git-svn
disables buffering on stdout, so color me confused.

Sorry I can't be more help,

j.

Re: git-svn fails to fetch repository

[Eric Wong]

Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 3:32 AM, Vladimir Pouzanov <farcaller@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Jay Soffian <jaysoffian <at> gmail.com> writes:
> >> So you're adding the "use Carp..." and "warn..." lines.
> >>
> >> Then try the import again. That should at least show why the svn_delta
> >> temp file is being acquired twice.
> >
> > Output is pretty long so I've put in on pastebin:
> > http://pastebin.com/m210be905
> 
> Okay, this is beyond me. git-svn (among other things) implements a
> so-called delta editor (part of the subversion API). The driver for
> that editor is apparently calling the editor's apply_textdelta()
> method twice in a row w/o an intervening call to the editor's
> close_file() method.
> 
> I don't understand when and/or why it would do this. This part of the
> Subversion API seems not that well documented, and I got lost trying
> to follow all the indirections in the Subversion source code (esp
> w/the swig'ified Perl bindings). AFAICT, this should not be happening.

Thank you Jay for your help and patch so far.  I'm sorry you had to go
through the craziness that is the Subversion library (and associated
craziness that leaked into git-svn) to try an debug this problem.

> I could ask you to insert some more debugging statements to try to
> track it to a specific file (or files), but I think at this point I'll
> going to wait to see if the git-svn author has any ideas.

Putting "print" and "print Dumper(\@_)" everywhere is pretty much
how I figured out how to use the delta interface the first time around.

Vladimir:

I can't reproduce this problem at all, either.  git-svn dups the file
handle in question, maybe your combination of (SVN/Perl/OSX) somehow
handles dup'd file descriptors differently?

Does the following patch (a shot in the dark) work for you?
(it generates a lot of warnings for me)

diff --git a/git-svn.perl b/git-svn.perl
index ad01e18..23e6925 100755
--- a/git-svn.perl
+++ b/git-svn.perl
@@ -3361,6 +3361,7 @@ sub apply_textdelta {
 	seek $base, 0, 0 or croak $!;
 	$fb->{fh} = $fh;
 	$fb->{base} = $base;
+	$fb->{dup} = $dup;
 	[ SVN::TxDelta::apply($base, $dup, undef, $fb->{path}, $fb->{pool}) ];
 }
 
@@ -3408,6 +3409,7 @@ sub close_file {
 
 		Git::temp_release($fb->{base}, 1);
 		Git::temp_release($fh, 1);
+		eval { Git::temp_release($fb->{dup}, 1) };
 	} else {
 		$hash = $fb->{blob} or die "no blob information\n";
 	}

> BTW, it doesn't help any that the order that files are checked out
> seems not to be consistent. Not only is my git-svn clone working, the
> order my files are checked out in is different from yours.
> 
> Oh, one other thing I don't understand is why the debugging output is
> now showing that some files are being added for you (the lines
> beginning with \tA). Before you weren't getting that. I had thought
> these lines might be getting lost in stdout buffering, but git-svn
> disables buffering on stdout, so color me confused.

With that comment and my attempted fix above, I'm almost under the
impression that something on Vladimir's system (or Perl) is
configured to handle I/O in some weird/broken way...

-- 
Eric Wong

Re: git-svn fails to fetch repository

[Vladimir Pouzanov]

On 17 янв. 2009, at 11:51, Eric Wong wrote:
> Does the following patch (a shot in the dark) work for you?
> (it generates a lot of warnings for me)

$ git svn clone http://qsb-mac.googlecode.com/svn/trunk qsbmac
Initialized empty Git repository in /Users/farcaller/temp/qsbmac/.git/
r1 = 810fe584c48b884460b5403a28bc61d872452b93 (git-svn)
Attempt to release temp file 'GLOB(0x82b290)' that has not been locked  
at /opt/local/libexec/git-core/git-svn line 3413
	A	externals/BSJSONAdditions/NSArray+BSJSONAdditions.m
Attempt to release temp file 'GLOB(0xa0de34)' that has not been locked  
at /opt/local/libexec/git-core/git-svn line 3413
	A	externals/BSJSONAdditions/BSJSON.h
Attempt to release temp file 'GLOB(0x80ed84)' that has not been locked  
at /opt/local/libexec/git-core/git-svn line 3413
	A	externals/BSJSONAdditions/NSDictionary+BSJSONAdditions.m
Attempt to release temp file 'GLOB(0x9d3018)' that has not been locked  
at /opt/local/libexec/git-core/git-svn line 3413
	A	externals/BSJSONAdditions/Example/Unit Tests/ 
BSJSONScanner_UnitTests.h
Attempt to release temp file 'GLOB(0xa0df48)' that has not been locked  
at /opt/local/libexec/git-core/git-svn line 3413
	A	externals/BSJSONAdditions/Example/version.plist
Attempt to release temp file 'GLOB(0x9d8114)' that has not been locked  
at /opt/local/libexec/git-core/git-svn line 3413
	A	externals/BSJSONAdditions/NSDictionary+BSJSONAdditions.h
Temp file with moniker 'svn_delta' already in use at /opt/local/lib/ 
perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/Git.pm line 1011.

I've built git 1.6.1 based on OSX original perl an subversion, and it  
handles the give repo without any problems, so the problem is kind of  
solved. Strange thing is that macports git (the one that fails)  
handles other svn repositories without any problems, I had cloned  
whole transmissionbt repo (>7000 revs) with all the tags and branches  
and several other simpler repositories.

-- 
Sincerely,
Vladimir "Farcaller" Pouzanov

Re: git-svn fails to fetch repository

[Eric Wong]

Vladimir Pouzanov <farcaller@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 17 янв. 2009, at 11:51, Eric Wong wrote:
>> Does the following patch (a shot in the dark) work for you?
>> (it generates a lot of warnings for me)
>
> $ git svn clone http://qsb-mac.googlecode.com/svn/trunk qsbmac
> Initialized empty Git repository in /Users/farcaller/temp/qsbmac/.git/
> r1 = 810fe584c48b884460b5403a28bc61d872452b93 (git-svn)
> Attempt to release temp file 'GLOB(0x82b290)' that has not been locked  
> at /opt/local/libexec/git-core/git-svn line 3413
> 	A	externals/BSJSONAdditions/NSArray+BSJSONAdditions.m
> Attempt to release temp file 'GLOB(0xa0de34)' that has not been locked  
> at /opt/local/libexec/git-core/git-svn line 3413
> 	A	externals/BSJSONAdditions/BSJSON.h
> Attempt to release temp file 'GLOB(0x80ed84)' that has not been locked  
> at /opt/local/libexec/git-core/git-svn line 3413
> 	A	externals/BSJSONAdditions/NSDictionary+BSJSONAdditions.m
> Attempt to release temp file 'GLOB(0x9d3018)' that has not been locked  
> at /opt/local/libexec/git-core/git-svn line 3413
> 	A	externals/BSJSONAdditions/Example/Unit Tests/ 
> BSJSONScanner_UnitTests.h
> Attempt to release temp file 'GLOB(0xa0df48)' that has not been locked  
> at /opt/local/libexec/git-core/git-svn line 3413
> 	A	externals/BSJSONAdditions/Example/version.plist
> Attempt to release temp file 'GLOB(0x9d8114)' that has not been locked  
> at /opt/local/libexec/git-core/git-svn line 3413
> 	A	externals/BSJSONAdditions/NSDictionary+BSJSONAdditions.h
> Temp file with moniker 'svn_delta' already in use at /opt/local/lib/ 
> perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/Git.pm line 1011.

OK, and there are no symlinks in the repository which could trigger a
rare code path, either.  Very strange, does abort_edit() ever get called
in there?

> I've built git 1.6.1 based on OSX original perl an subversion, and it  
> handles the give repo without any problems, so the problem is kind of  
> solved. Strange thing is that macports git (the one that fails) handles 
> other svn repositories without any problems, I had cloned whole 
> transmissionbt repo (>7000 revs) with all the tags and branches and 
> several other simpler repositories.

At least you got a working combination working.  Does anybody know if
macports git have any patches/changes to it that could cause this?

-- 
Eric Wong

Re: git-svn fails to fetch repository

[Jay Soffian]

On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 5:45 AM, Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net> wrote:
> At least you got a working combination working.  Does anybody know if
> macports git have any patches/changes to it that could cause this?

I installed the macports git and it worked fine for me. Same versions
of git and subversion. The only difference was that I was on macports
perl 5.8.9 and Vladimir was on macports perl 5.8.8.

If I have time, I'll try it with macports perl 5.8.8 and see if I can
reproduce. I'm pretty curious why the apply_textdelta() callback is
apparently running twice on the same file w/o the intervening close.
:-)

j.

Re: git-svn fails to fetch repository

[Jay Soffian]

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On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 4:12 PM, Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com> wrote:
> Your original email doesn't appear to provide the complete error
> message. I'm on OS X 10.5.6 (Intel), git 1.6.1.77.g81ea1, system perl
> (/usr/bin/perl - 5.8.8) and I'm able to clone okay:

BTW, since it's the system perl, it's also the system Perl subversion
bindings, which means 1.4.4.

IOW, even though I have MacPorts installed, I define NO_DARWIN_PORTS=1
during install. I've attached the script I use for compiling &
installing git for reference.

j.

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#!/bin/sh -ex

export PATH=.:$PATH

SUDO=
export ASCIIDOC8=1
export DOCBOOK_XSL_172=1

makecmd () {
	$SUDO make prefix="/opt/git" \
	CFLAGS="-Wall -O2 -I/usr/include" \
	LDFLAGS="-L/usr/lib" \
	CURLDIR="/usr" \
	OPENSSLDIR="/usr" \
	ICONVDIR="/usr" \
	PERL_PATH="/usr/bin/perl" \
	THREADED_DELTA_SEARCH=1 \
	NO_FINK=1 NO_DARWIN_PORTS=1 \
	"$@"
}

build () {
	(cd git-gui && sudo make clean)
	makecmd all doc gitweb/gitweb.cgi
}

test () {
	makecmd test
}

install () {
	build
	sudo rm -rf /opt/git
	SUDO=sudo makecmd install install-man install-html
	sudo rm -rf /opt/git/System
	sudo mkdir /opt/git/share/gitweb || true
	sudo cp -f gitweb/git* /opt/git/share/gitweb/
	sudo rm -f /opt/git/share/gitweb/gitweb.perl
	sudo cp contrib/gitview/gitview /opt/git/bin/gitview
	sudo chmod 755 /opt/git/bin/gitview
	sudo cp contrib/completion/git-completion.bash /opt/git/share/git-core/
    	sudo chmod 644 /opt/git/share/git-core/git-completion.bash
}

case "$1" in
  test) test ;;
  build) build ;;
  install) install ;;
  *) build ;;
esac

Re: git-svn fails to fetch repository

[Petr Baudis]

On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 08:46:55PM +0000, Vladimir Pouzanov wrote:
> Björn Steinbrink <B.Steinbrink <at> gmx.de> writes:
> > Is that Linux box using Gentoo? If so, try emerging subversion with -dso
> > in your build flags.
> 
> Yeah, that's gentoo. Will try rebuilding svn now.

I have hit the same issue (segfault on Gentoo) and this fixed it for me.
But do you have any details on why is the segfault caused and how to
prevent it? USE=dso is the default on Gentoo. :-(

-- 
				Petr "Pasky" Baudis
The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty
in the morning feeling just terrible. -- Jean Kerr

Re: git-svn fails to fetch repository

[Björn Steinbrink]

On 2009.01.23 09:52:35 +0100, Petr Baudis wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 08:46:55PM +0000, Vladimir Pouzanov wrote:
> > Björn Steinbrink <B.Steinbrink <at> gmx.de> writes:
> > > Is that Linux box using Gentoo? If so, try emerging subversion with -dso
> > > in your build flags.
> > 
> > Yeah, that's gentoo. Will try rebuilding svn now.
> 
> I have hit the same issue (segfault on Gentoo) and this fixed it for me.
> But do you have any details on why is the segfault caused and how to
> prevent it? USE=dso is the default on Gentoo. :-(

No idea, I just heard about that in #git. IIRC it was Mikachu who came
up with that solution. Unfortunately, he's not around at the moment, and
I don't recall his real name, so not on Cc. :-/

Björn