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diff --git a/gnu/usr.bin/cvs/windows-NT/README b/gnu/usr.bin/cvs/windows-NT/README index 60321e659a1..440f99d0bc8 100644 --- a/gnu/usr.bin/cvs/windows-NT/README +++ b/gnu/usr.bin/cvs/windows-NT/README @@ -1,6 +1,5 @@ Concurrent Versions System (CVS) ported to Microsoft Windows NT - Cyclic Software Check the ../INSTALL file for information on the most recent version of CVS which has been known to be tested with NT and/or Win95. @@ -17,16 +16,26 @@ confuse the makefile for Visual C++. To compile, use Microsoft Visual C++ on the file cvsnt.mak in the distribution's top directory. At least with the tar port I'm using, the sources get extracted without carriage returns and you must add -carriage returns to the end of every line in cvsnt.mak. I also had to -add them to src/server.c. It doesn't seem to be necessary to add them -to any other file. This makefile was generated with Visual C++ 4.x. -For Visual C++ 5.x use cvsnet.dsp (which is probably more likely to be -up to date than cvsnt.mak anyway). For Visual C++ 2.x you probably -are in the position of digging through old versions of CVS for a -cvsnt.mak and then updating it. Feel free to let us know about -problems of this sort as with other bug reports; our impression thus -far is that relatively few people care about which versions of Visual -C++ work. +carriage returns to the end of every line in cvsnt.mak. It doesn't +seem to be necessary to add them to any other file. This makefile was +generated with Visual C++ 4.x. For Visual C++ 5.x you can try +cvsnet.dsp. For Visual C++ 2.x you probably are in the position of +digging through old versions of CVS for a cvsnt.mak and then updating +it. Feel free to let us know about problems of this sort as with +other bug reports. + +Update as of 13 Oct 1998: I (Jim Kingdon) do build CVS successfully +with Visual C++ on a regular basis. The builds on download.cyclic.com +(CVS 1.10, CVS 1.10.3, &c) are built using Visual C++ 4.0 and +cvsnt.mak from the Debug (not release) configuration. I have pretty +much given up on getting the Visual C++ IDE to generate a makefile +that works for anyone except me :-(. If I knew an easy fix for this, +I'd do it, but it is easier to just complain about Microsoft's finicky +IDE and makefile/project file format du jour :-). Having people send +in "fixed" versions of cvsnt.mak and cvsnt.dsp regularly, as has been +happening, is fine but it isn't an "easy fix", unfortunately, as it is +rarely clear to me whether a particular submission will improve things +or not. Send bug reports to bug-cvs@gnu.org. @@ -43,30 +52,11 @@ of CVS (1.8 and older), you also need gzip. Note that you do NOT need an rsh client if you are using the :server: access method (which uses the internal rsh client), except perhaps for debugging. -To operate in local mode, you will need GNU patch, GNU diffutils, -and rcs version 5.7 installed on your system. Make -sure NOT to get a version of rcs less than 5.7 (gr564bnt.zip was -particularly bad), because those versions insist on putting their -files in their own directory structure, making them incompatible with -CVS. +To operate in local mode, you should need nothing other than CVS (that +is, you no longer need RCS, diff, &c, in order to run CVS). -Noel Cragg, who did the latest mods to the Windows NT port, used the -following packages: - - ftp://wuarchive.wustl.edu/systems/ibmpc/gnuish/patch212.zip - ftp://ftp.netcom.com/pub/al/alexande/rcs57nt.zip - ftp://ftp.netcom.com/pub/al/alexande/diff57nt.zip - -Copies of these zip files can be also be found in the windows-nt -directory for the latest CVS release (cvs-1.9/windows-nt, for example) -under: - - ftp://ftp.cyclic.com/pub/cvs/ or - http://www.cyclic.com/archive/pub/cvs/ - -If you want to try other versions of these utilities, you might have -luck with the Congruent ports of these packages to Windows NT, binary -and source: +One useful site may be the Congruent ports of various packages to +Windows NT, binary and source: ftp://microlib.cc.utexas.edu/microlib/nt/gnu/ @@ -75,9 +65,10 @@ which support long file names, which you will need to unpack the CVS source distribution. The CYGWIN32 package is a port of various GNU tools for NT, providing -bash as the shell and gcc as the compiler. The tools are still in -development, but they are useful for running a modified version of -sanity.sh: +bash as the shell and gcc as the compiler. Basically, you don't want +the stuff in this directory for CVS running under cygwin32; you want +the same stuff as for unix (../configure, Makefile.in, &c). For +cygwin32 information see http://www.cygnus.com/misc/gnu-win32/ @@ -106,6 +97,8 @@ The following harmless warnings are known: .\lib\getdate.c(1612) : warning C4102: 'yyerrlab' : unreferenced label .\lib\getdate.c(1612) : warning C4102: 'yynewstate' : unreferenced label +Oct 1998 update: there are more now. I've gotten lax about removing +the warnings lately :-( -kingdon. CODING STANDARDS for Windows |