[bug-notifications] [pysvn 0004902]: pysvn and/or pythonsvn not functional

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https://www.opencsw.org/mantis/view.php?id=4902 
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Reported By:                joeymukherjee
Assigned To:                dam
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Project:                    pysvn
Issue ID:                   4902
Category:                   upgrade
Reproducibility:            always
Severity:                   major
Priority:                   normal
Status:                     assigned
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Date Submitted:             2012-02-21 20:09 CET
Last Modified:              2012-02-23 02:11 CET
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Summary:                    pysvn and/or pythonsvn not functional
Description: 
In the Solaris 9 build, the pysvn and pythonsvn do not have core.py with
them.  This makes the SVN python libs useless.  The command I am trying to
get working is: 

>>> from svn import core
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/opt/csw/lib/python/site-packages/svn/core.py", line 19, in
<module>
  File "/opt/csw/lib/python/site-packages/libsvn/core.py", line 7, in
<module>
ImportError: No module named _core 
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 (0009640) maciej (manager) - 2012-02-23 02:11
 https://www.opencsw.org/mantis/view.php?id=4902#c9640 
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I'm thinking that Solaris 9 is a red herring, it doesn't matter, 9 or 11 or
10.

You'll see the problem when you look at the list of files in the package:
http://buildfarm.opencsw.org/pkgdb/srv4/f55304036900433c9aded3c2a35c0a67/

The files that are supposed to be in:

/opt/csw/lib/python/site-packages/svn

are in:

/opt/csw/lib/svn/python/site-packages/svn

...and the Python interpreter won't find them. The problem is with the way
the module is packaged.

You can temporarily work around that by setting PYTHONPATH to
/opt/csw/lib/svn/pythohn/site-packages, or making symlinks to
/opt/csw/lib/python/site-packages.

Looking at the build recipe, there's one line that causes the problem:

https://gar.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/gar/csw/mgar/pkg/subversion/trunk/Makefile

SVNLIB     = $(prefix)/lib/svn

All paths, including Python, are relative to this one, and that's why
Python files end up under /opt/csw/lib/svn instead of /opt/csw/lib.