svn eclipse on mac uses wrong version of sqlite

Question

osx big sur (11.2.3)
subversion 1.14.1 (via home brew) - /usr/local/bin/svn
sqlite 3.35.3 (via home brew dependency of subversion) - /usr/local/opt/sqlite/bin/sqlite3
sqlite 3.32.3 (via mac osx) - /usr/bin/sqlite3

if i invoke svn checkout from the command line it works great.

from within eclipse, svn checkout fails:

svn: Couldn't perform atomic initialization
SQLite error
svn: SQLite compiled for 3.34.0, but running with 3.32.3

there are dire warnings about not screwing around with the osx installed sqlite version. how do i get eclipse to use the right sqlite version?

like, setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH somehow?

Answer 1

I had the same problem, however not with Eclipse but rather with PySVN. For the reference, I had a subversion installation with Homebrew producing the exact same versions mentioned in your question.

What I did was to install subversion from source. That is:

• brew uninstall subversion sqlite3 -> this ensure the sqlite3 used is not that of homebrew
• install scons (https://scons.org) needed for Apache Serf (not to be confused with serf available in homebrew. Note, it builds only with Python2.
• Build Apache Serf with command (inside Serf sources directory): ../scons-local-2.3.0/scons.py APR=/opt/homebrew/opt/apr APU=/opt/homebrew/opt/apr-util OPENSSL=/opt/homebrew/Cellar/[email protected]/1.1.1k/,
• Install Apache Serf: ../scons-local-2.3.0/scons.py install -> will install in /usr/local by default
• Build subversion 1.14: cd subversion-1.14.1 then ./configure --with-apr=/opt/homebrew/opt/apr --with-apr-util=/opt/homebrew/opt/apr-util --with-utf8proc=internal --with-serf=/usr/local
• Install Subversion: make then make install
• Then rebuild / install PySvn. And it works.