I finally extracted binary and some libs out of a newer Ubuntu version. Just 5 libs (sqlite, svn_delta, diff, subr, wc) hasn't been enough for this. A Linux guru super tip has been to just put this libs into some extra folder and call svnversion with a different LD_LIBRARY_PATH and copy just a shell script to the /usr/bin:
#!/bin/sh export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/home/user/svnfix/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH /home/user/svnfix/svnversion $1 $2 $3 $4 Thanks all of you helping me with your ideas! Arno Gesendet: Dienstag, 26. März 2013 um 13:47 Uhr Von: "Philip Martin" <philip.mar...@wandisco.com> An: "Daniel Shahaf" <d...@daniel.shahaf.name> Cc: "Arno Steffens" <e...@gmx.de>, users@subversion.apache.org Betreff: Re: compile just svnversion (in addition to the eclipse-plugin) Daniel Shahaf <d...@daniel.shahaf.name> writes: > Philip Martin wrote on Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 10:09:21 +0000: >> >> Getting another package is probably an easier solution, however... >> >> The Subversion libraries are binary compatible so the binary from the >> standard Ubuntu package should work with the libraries from the Eclipse >> package. Extract the binary and put it somewhere on your PATH. Ubuntu >> changes the so-version of the libsvn libraries, if the Eclipse package >> doesn't do the same you would need to create some library symlinks as >> well. > > IIUC, you are simply saying that instead of installing the 'subversion' > package (which provides /usr/bin/svnversion), extracting the > 'svnversion' binary from that package and adding it to $PATH should > work. > > I agree, but I'm not sure how that simplifies things: the 'subversion' > package contains little more than the binaries to begin with, so you > won't save much by installing just parts of it. The problem, as I understand it, is that the new package doesn't contain an svnversion binary. > The interesting part is that you might be able to use the 'svn' binary > from the *old* system, too. (ie, old binary and new libraries) This > should work for every other client, but the cmdline client sometimes > uses subversion/include/private/ functions --- which breaks this > use-case (practically at the runtime linker, though that's not > guaranteed). That's what I am suggesting. Extract the svnversion binary from the old package that does provide it and use that binary with the new packages that don't provide it. -- Certified & Supported Apache Subversion Downloads: http://www.wandisco.com/subversion/download