The first command I typed in Emacs this morning was “svn up“. Two seconds later, the unexpected unwelcome stranger “svnserve: error while loading shared libraries: libpq.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory” popped into my screen, I felt my heart jumped up into my throat and my blood pressure went up a bit. This is no good***@#^& :–(
Checked on BlueHost support site and was informed that they have upgraded PostgreSQL and have recompiled Apache. I suppose I couldn’t ask BlueHost tech support regarding the issue since Subversion is not something included in the hosting package.
Found this thread on Google suggesting to ‘rebuild apt-util’ but without giving any solution, so I decided to roll my sleeves and solve the problem on my own.
Here was my installation hosting environment:
1. Bluehost 64bit box
2. subversion 1.5.5
And here is how I installed subversion in the first place, you may want to check this post (referring as post #1 form now on) first as the following steps are partially in the same context with it.
Failed trying to reconfigure
Tried to install all subversion dependencies downloaded in post #1, it ignores the installation and says the libraries have been installed.
Tried to reconfigure and link, got lots of ‘cannot read symbols‘ error. One of the errors seems to be version related problem which I encountered before while doing apache upgrading.
I guess I may need higher version of apr and apr-util and hope they will still work with subversion 1.5.5, otherwise I’ll have to upgrade my svn on the server as well.
Download apr and apr-util
cd src
wget http://www.apache.org/dist/apr/apr-1.3.5.tar.gz
wget http://www.apache.org/dist/apr/apr-util-1.3.7.tar.gz
tar -xzvf apr-1.3.5.tar.gz
tar -xzvf apr-util-1.3.7.tar.gz
Install apr
cd apr-1.3.5
./configure --enable-shared --prefix=$HOME LDFLAGS="-L/lib64"
make && make install
Install apr-util
cd ../apr-util-1.3.7
./configure --enable-shared --prefix=$HOME --with-apr=$HOME --without-berkeley-db LDFLAGS="-L/lib64"
make && make install
Install neon
Since neon depends on apr and apr-util, I’d better reinstall it as well, tried to install the neon comes with subversion-dep-1.5.5.tar.gz and this time it succeeded, great!
cd ../subversion-1.5.5/neon
EXTRA_CFLAGS="-L/lib64 -fPIC"
CFLAGS="-L/lib64 -fPIC"
./configure --prefix=$HOME --enable-shared LDFLAGS="-L/lib64" --with-libs=$HOME
make && make install
Reinstall Subversion
cd ..
./configure --prefix=$HOME --without-berkeley-db --with-apr=$HOME --with-apr-util=$HOME --with-neon=$HOME -without-apxs --without-apache
make && make install
Something you might want to know if you are going to follow my steps to save your svn server on BlueHost. As the information in this weblog is provided “AS IS” with no warranties : )
1.Check your BlueHost hosting environment (32 bit or 64 bit)
2.Check your subversion version (a new repository schema has been introduced since version 1.4.?, you may want to download all repositories and upgrade them locally)
3.Backup all repositories.
4.If you are not sure about what those steps are all about please do read post #1, don’t replicate them blindly – for your server’s safety, although BlueHost backs up your home directory in daily and weekly intervals.
5.There might be a better solution beyond my knowledge and you can wait for someone to find out – I am just a brave armature :)