Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 13:21:51 +0100
From: Daniel Hulme <st AT istic DOT org>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: git-svn breaks when Perl is upgraded to 5.10
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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/).

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.

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 your attention. Please CC me on any replies as I am not on
the list.

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