Re-sending this since the Cygwin list says any cross-post means you're
a spammer. :-( I will now post to the cvs list and warn people not to
Reply-All or they may be marked as spammers too. :-(
luke
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: cvs problem under cygwin, cvs documentation
Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 12:11:58 +1100 (EST)
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Although we have a moderately good workaround (an old version of cvs
compiled up), we have a long-standing problem with cvs in Cygwin that
I'm looking into finally. We get responses like:
$ /usr/bin/cvs update
[EMAIL PROTECTED]'s password:
' from cvs serverng: unrecognized response `ok
cvs [update aborted]: received interrupt signal
Killed by signal 2.
Which of course is newline conversion problems:
$ /usr/bin/cvs update 2>&1 | od -c
[EMAIL PROTECTED]'s password:
0000000 c v s u p d a t e : w a r n
0000020 i n g : u n r e c o g n i z e
0000040 d r e s p o n s e ` o k \r '
0000060 f r o m c v s s e r v e r
A message from 2002 to the cvs mailing list suggested using the access
method :server: instead of the default :ext:. I added this to CVSROOT
like so:
CVSROOT=:server:cvs.research.canon.com.au:/u/cvs
but that had no effect on existing checkouts because of the existing
CVS/Root file, but after editing that to insert the :server: at the
front:
$ cat CVS/Root
:server:cvs.research.canon.com.au:/u/cvs
I got this response:
$ /usr/bin/cvs update
cvs [update aborted]: the :server: access method is not supported by this port of
CVS
Any suggestions?
I notice that none of the :ext: or :server: stuff is written up in the
CVS man page. I'll have a read through the FAQ. Erk. Our local copy
is 1993. Erk. The CVS FAQ at http://ccvs.cvshome.org/fom//cache/1.html
doesn't appear to be available as a single file, and doesn't seem to be
as comprehensive as the old FAQ anyway.
http://www.cvshome.org/docs/#s3 points at the old CVS site, but the
good FAQ doesn't exist there either. Oh well.
I suppose it's really a Cygwin problem, because a version someone once
compiled up here is okay. I see it's just a client version, not a
client/server version.
Working version of cvs under Windows/Cygwin:
$ /opt/bin/cvs --version
Concurrent Versions System (CVS) 1.10 `Halibut' (client)
Copyright (c) 1989-1998 Brian Berliner, david d `zoo' zuhn,
Jeff Polk, and other authors
CVS may be copied only under the terms of the GNU General Public License,
a copy of which can be found with the CVS distribution kit.
Specify the --help option for further information about CVS
Broken version of cvs under Windows/Cygwin:
$ /usr/bin/cvs --version
Concurrent Versions System (CVS) 1.11.6 (client/server)
Copyright (c) 1989-2003 Brian Berliner, david d `zoo' zuhn,
Jeff Polk, and other authors
CVS may be copied only under the terms of the GNU General Public License,
a copy of which can be found with the CVS distribution kit.
Specify the --help option for further information about CVS
Ah, one other difference is that our /opt/bin/cvs version does not
complain about CVSROOT starting with ":server:", so the real question
may be: why doesn't the Cygwin version include that?
luke
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