JOSM build failed with SVN

[Andre68]

I'm fetching JOSM by SVN and currently cannot compile the latest JOSM on a Ubuntu system.

Besides a long list of warnings I believe the relevant part is the following:

init-svn-revision-xml:

init-git-revision-xml:
     [exec] Result: 128

create-revision:
[xmlproperty] [Fatal Error] REVISION.XML:1:1: Content is not allowed in prolog.

BUILD FAILED
/home/andi/Projekte/osm/josm/build.xml:74: Failed to load /home/andi/Projekte/osm/josm/REVISION.XML

The file REVISION.XML contains the following:

fatal: Not a git repository (or any parent up to mount point /home)
Stopping at filesystem boundary (GIT_DISCOVERY_ACROSS_FILESYSTEM not set).

I'm not an ant expert. I believe that ant tries to execute 'LANG="C" svn info --xml .' which gives the following output on my system:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<info>
<entry
   kind="dir"
   path="."
   revision="6581">
<url>http://josm.openstreetmap.de/svn/trunk</url>
<repository>
<root>http://josm.openstreetmap.de/svn</root>
<uuid>0c6e7542-c601-0410-84e7-c038aed88b3b</uuid>
</repository>
<wc-info>
<wcroot-abspath>/home/andi/Projekte/osm/josm</wcroot-abspath>
<schedule>normal</schedule>
<depth>infinity</depth>
</wc-info>
<commit
   revision="6581">
<author>simon04</author>
<date>2013-12-31T14:10:06.679140Z</date>
</commit>
</entry>
</info>

This looks fine to me and the error code is 0.

File state of REVISION.XML is -rw-r--r-- which should also be fine.

So why does ant afterwards try to run git?

[simon04]

In 6585/josm:

fix #9501 see #9450 - JOSM build failed with SVN

[anonymous]

On Ubuntu 14.04 I also had to do this:

svn upgrade

before building.

[stoecker]

This is unrelated to this ticket. Reading the texts you were presented properly you should have noticed that this happens when you update your local subversion to a new version!