SOLVED Subversion svn fails silently after updating Cygwin

[Chris Cormie]

Charles Wilson wrote:
> Chris Cormie wrote:
> 
>> In 1.5 setup.ini
>> @ subversion
>> requires: cygwin libapr1 libaprutil1 libdb4.2 libexpat1 libintl8
>> libneon27 libsasl2 libserf0_0 libsqlite3_0 zlib
>>
>> In 1.7 setup.ini
>> @ subversion
>> requires: libapr1 libaprutil1 libdb4.2 libexpat1 libgcc1 libintl8
>> libneon27 libsasl2 libserf0_0 libsqlite3_0 zlib0 cygwin
> 
> This really should make no difference. The zlib package itself requires
> zlib0, so even on cygwin-1.5 you should have been okay.

Good point well argued -- the depends list isn't the problem. I would 
have caught the problem earlier if I'd been thorough and built a full 
dependency list for subversion and reinstalled each one, not just the 
first level dependencies.

Of course now I know about strace/cygcheck I'm much better armed to 
diagnose this sort of problem in the future :)

> I suspect the real problem is that zlib0 was misinstalled on your
> cygwin-1.5 system originally, and once you reinstalled THAT, your svn
> was fixed.

Yep, that's the bunny, no question.

(Still an open question if everyone who hits this problem has the same 
cause, and whether the setup.exe package update run somehow misinstalled 
cygz.dll (or even removed it.) Alternately, it was merely something I did.)

Chris.

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