just to correct a false impression. One part of my problem (point 3. below) was a wrong hsc2hs program that was found in my PATH by accident (that also caused http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/cabal-devel/2008-October/003980.html)
Cheers Christian Christian Maeder wrote: > Hi, > > I've install HsSVN (version 0.3.3) using ghc-6.8.3 and Cabal-1.4.0.1, > but it was a real pain (under i686 Linux 2.6.22.18-0.2-default #1 SMP) > > 1. I had to install subversion-devel-1.4.4-30 (of course) > 2. configure went through after setting: > export CPATH=/usr/include/apr-1:/usr/include/subversion-1 > 3. building failed with: > > Program error: <handle>: IO.getContents: protocol error (input contains > non-character data - use binary I/O for binary data) > > because some comments in the sources (i.e. Subversion/FileSystem.hsc) > contain funny (japanese?) characters that hsc2hs does not like. (Under > Solaris and Mac this was no problem, though.) I used iconv to convert > the sources and finally the included HelloWorld example went through. > > 4. Under Solaris, only apr-1-config and apu-1-config found the proper > include path (so I needed to adjust the configure.ac file) > > 5. The file HsSVN.buildinfo.in has no final newline, so that the last > line (containing the ld-options:) is missing in HsSVN.buildinfo after > configure! > > 6. Running the examples under Solaris failed with: > -bash-3.1$ ./HelloWorld > Creating a repository "repos"... > The youngest revision of the repository is 0 > Storing a file "/hello" in it... > HelloWorld: user error (withSubversion: caught an SvnError: UnknownError > 22: Can't set position pointer in file 'repos/db/revs/0': Invalid argument) > > Cheers Christian > > Shahzad wrote: >> Dear Sir/Madam, >> >> I am doctoral student and researcher in Technical University Vienna. I >> need to manage Subversion client and run SVN commands through >> Haskell6.8 , and I need to make that application for ubuntu and Windows, >> Can you guide me how to make any API for Haskell to use Subversion. >> >> I was thinking to use c2hs to make an interface from C++ to haskell but >> I could not find that a solution. There is a Package HsSVN but is also >> not working. >> >> Can you please guide me to the solution.. >> >> Best Regards >> >> Syed > > _______________________________________________ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users
