Andrew Keller <andrew@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html