svn aix subversion-1.5.4 issue

["Morales, Pedro" <Pe...@FMR.COM>]

Hi,

Getting the following error after install svn 1.5.4 on aix server:
Just running "svn help":
   Could not load program svn:
   Dependent module libsvn_client-1.so could not be loaded. 
   Could not load module libsvn_client-1.so.

We don't know the cause of the error. 

Is the aix 1.5.4 install requires to live at /opt/subversion-1.5.4
directory?

Since we have installed subversion on different directory. Find below
the way how we have setup the diff subversion UNIX versions:

We have all UNIX svn instance flavors on filesystem
ecbclrg12:/subversion like:
aix           install-pkgs  linux         linux64       lost+found
solaris10     solaris9

On one of our aix servers we had mounted this filesystem to /subversion
directory
Then setup a link to 1.5.4 version under /subversion/aix :
lrwxrwxrwx    1 69360    78270            16 Mar 16 11:56 subversion ->
subversion-1.5.4
drwxr-xr-x    7 69360    78270          1024 Mar 16 11:53
subversion-1.5.4

We added on this aix server to the beginning of the PATH :
/subversion/aix/subversion/bin

Thanks



Pedro Morales 
*817-474-6692 
* pedro.morales@fmr.com 

Re: svn aix subversion-1.5.4 issue

[Peter Samuelson <pe...@p12n.org>]

[Morales, Pedro]
> Getting the following error after install svn 1.5.4 on aix server:
> Just running "svn help":
>    Could not load program svn:
>    Dependent module libsvn_client-1.so could not be loaded. 
>    Could not load module libsvn_client-1.so.

This is a Subversion usage question, not a Subversion development
question, so it belongs on users@subversion.apache.org.

But it's really a building stuff on AIX question.  AIX 4.1 had a
decidedly weird way of handling shared libraries and finding them at
runtime, and AIX 4.3 had the same but they added a more ELF-like mode
you could use instead if you wanted.  Where AIX 5.1 went from there I
do not know.

But in any case, you need to build Subversion so that it knows where to
find the libraries it will need, such as libsvn_client-1.  How to do
this depends on whether you're using xlc or gcc, the system linker or
GNU binutils, and probably depends on your version of AIX.
-- 
Peter Samuelson | org-tld!p12n!peter | http://p12n.org/

Re: svn aix subversion-1.5.4 issue

[Martin Furter <mf...@apache.org>]

Hello Pedro

It wasn't able to find the library (or AIX seems to call them modules) 
libsvn_client-1.so .  It probably expects them to be in 
/opt/subversion-1.5.4/lib .

The following command shows the libraries svn uses and where it found 
them, I guess it shows that it can't find all libsvn_*.so:

$ ldd `which svn`
    libsvn_client-1.so.0 => /usr/local/svn-1.4.5/lib/libsvn_client-1.so.0
    libsvn_wc-1.so.0 =>     /usr/local/svn-1.4.5/lib/libsvn_wc-1.so.0
    libsvn_ra-1.so.0 =>     /usr/local/svn-1.4.5/lib/libsvn_ra-1.so.0
  ... a lot more libs

You could try adding /subversion/aix/lib to the library path:

$ LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/subversion/aix/lib svn help

If that works you can add that dir permanently to the library path.

Another way is creating the dir /opt/subversion-1.5.4 and a symlink
/opt/subversion-1.5.4/lib pointing to /subversion/aix/lib .

Or you could compile subversion with --prefix=/subversion/aix .

Since this is a usage question it belongs to the 
users@subversion.apache.org mailing list, please ask there if you need 
more help.

Martin


Morales, Pedro wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Getting the following error after install svn 1.5.4 on aix server:
> Just running "svn help":
>    Could not load program svn:
>    Dependent module libsvn_client-1.so could not be loaded. 
>    Could not load module libsvn_client-1.so.
> 
> We don't know the cause of the error. 
> 
> Is the aix 1.5.4 install requires to live at /opt/subversion-1.5.4
> directory?
> 
> Since we have installed subversion on different directory. Find below
> the way how we have setup the diff subversion UNIX versions:
> 
> We have all UNIX svn instance flavors on filesystem
> ecbclrg12:/subversion like:
> aix           install-pkgs  linux         linux64       lost+found
> solaris10     solaris9
> 
> On one of our aix servers we had mounted this filesystem to /subversion
> directory
> Then setup a link to 1.5.4 version under /subversion/aix :
> lrwxrwxrwx    1 69360    78270            16 Mar 16 11:56 subversion ->
> subversion-1.5.4
> drwxr-xr-x    7 69360    78270          1024 Mar 16 11:53
> subversion-1.5.4
> 
> We added on this aix server to the beginning of the PATH :
> /subversion/aix/subversion/bin
> 
> Thanks
> 
> 
> 
> Pedro Morales 
> *817-474-6692 
> * pedro.morales@fmr.com 
> 
>