I appreciate your advice, I'll check the SVNKit lists. Judging from the access timestamps (ls -lu jsvn*) the "jsvnadmin" script was the only one that had been accessed when this basic_tests.py run failed. This run, if successful, would have gone through all the tests.
Regards, Tom On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 2:34 PM, Daniel Shahaf <danie...@elego.de> wrote: > Tom Bing wrote on Tue, May 01, 2012 at 12:04:03 -0400: >> I am running some tests with basic_tests.py to verify the operation of >> the SVNKit command-line client scripts. I encountered an error (Errno >> 8) when I ran basic_tests.py with the --use-jsvn > > SVNKit questions should be asked on the SVNKit mailing lists. > >> and --bin= options, as shown by the terminal session below. > .. >> [tom@lorien ~]$ ls $SVNKIT_HOME/bin >> jsvn jsvndumpfilter jsvnsetup.openvms jsvnversion.bat >> jsvnadmin jsvndumpfilter.bat jsvnsync >> jsvnadmin.bat jsvnlook jsvnsync.bat >> jsvn.bat jsvnlook.bat jsvnversion >> [tom@lorien ~]$ cd subversion-1.6.15 >> [tom@lorien cmdline]$ ./basic_tests.py --use-jsvn --bin=$SVNKIT_HOME/bin >> OSError: [Errno 8] Exec format error > > I assume that svntest tries gets that error upon attempting to run > system("$SVNKIT_HOME/bin/jsvn") (aka os.system() in Python). > > Beyond that, This does not seem to be a bug in the test harness itself, so > please > follow up on the SVNKit lists. Good luck! > > Daniel