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First, read the README file. If you're still happy...
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CVS has been tested on the following platforms. The most recent
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version of CVS reported to have been tested is indicated, but more
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recent versions of CVS probably will work too. Please send updates to
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this list to bug-cvs@prep.ai.mit.edu (doing so in the form of a diff
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to this file is encouraged). "tested" means, at a minimum, that CVS
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compiles and appears to work on simple (manual) testing. In many
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cases it also means "make check" and/or "make remotecheck" passes, but
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we don't try to list the platforms for which that is true.
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Alpha:
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DEC Alpha running OSF/1 version 1.3 using cc (about 1.4A2)
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DEC Alpha running OSF/1 version 2.0 (1.8)
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DEC Alpha running OSF/1 version 2.1 (about 1.4A2)
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DEC Alpha running OSF/1 version 3.0 (1.5.95) (footnote 7)
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DEC Alpha running OSF/1 version 3.2 (1.9)
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DEC Alpha running VMS 6.2 (1.8.85 client-only)
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Cray:
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J90 (CVS 970215 snapshot)
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T3E (CVS 970215 snapshot)
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HPPA:
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HP 9000/710 running HP-UX 8.07A using gcc (about 1.4A2)
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HPPA running HP-UX 9 (1.8)
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HPPA running HP-UX 10.01 (1.7)
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HPPA 1.1 running HP-UX A.09.03 (1.5.95) (footnote 8)
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HPPA 1.1 running HP-UX A.09.04 (1.7.1)
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HPPA 9000/735 running HP-UX A.09.05 (1.8.87)
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NextSTEP 3.3 (1.7)
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i386 family:
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Solaris 2.4 using gcc (about 1.4A2)
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UnixWare v1.1.1 using gcc (about 1.4A2)
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Unixware 2.1 (1.8.86)
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ISC 4.0.1 (1.8.87)
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Linux (kernel 1.2.x) (1.8.86)
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BSDI 2.0 (1.4.93) (footnote 5)
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FreeBSD 2.1.5-stable (1.8.87)
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NextSTEP 3.3 (1.7)
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SCO Unix 3.2.4.2, gcc 2.7.2 (1.8.87) (footnote 4)
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SCO OpenServer 5 (1.8.86)
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Lynx 2.3.0 080695 (1.6.86) (footnote 9)
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Windows NT 3.51 (1.8.86 client; 1.8.3 local)
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Windows NT 4.0 (1.9 client and local)
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Windows 95 (1.8.86 client and local)
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QNX 4 (1.7 + obvious patches)
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OS/2 Version 3 using IBM C/C++ Tools 2.01 (1.8.86 + patches, client)
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m68k:
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Sun 3 running SunOS 4.1.1_U1 w/ bundled K&R /usr/5bin/cc (1.8.86+)
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NextSTEP 3.3p1 (1.8.87)
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Lynx 2.3.0 062695 (1.6.86) (footnote 9)
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m88k:
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Data General AViiON running dgux 5.4R2.10 (1.5)
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Data General AViiON running dgux 5.4R3.10 (1.7.1)
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Harris Nighthawk 5800 running CX/UX 7.1 (1.5) (footnote 6)
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MIPS:
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DECstation running Ultrix 4.2a (1.4.90)
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DECstation running Ultrix 4.3 (1.8.85)
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SGI running Irix 4.0.5H using gcc and cc (about 1.4A2) (footnote 2)
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SGI running Irix 5.3 using gcc 2.7.2 (1.8.87)
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SGI running Irix-6.2 (1.9.8)
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Siemens-Nixdorf RM600 running SINIX-Y (1.6)
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PowerPC or RS/6000:
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IBM RS/6000 running AIX 3.1 using gcc and cc (1.6.86)
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IBM RS/6000 running AIX 3.2.5 (1.8)
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IBM RS/6000 running AIX 4.1 using gcc and cc (about 1.4A2) (footnote 1)
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Lynx 2.3.1 120495 (1.6.86) (footnote 9)
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SPARC:
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Sun SPARC running SunOS 4.1.x (1.8.87)
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Sun SPARCstation 10 running Solaris 2.3 using gcc and cc (about 1.4A2)
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Sun SPARCstation running Solaris 2.4 using gcc and cc (about 1.5.91)
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Sun SPARC running Solaris 2.5 (1.8.87)
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NextSTEP 3.3 (1.7)
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Sun SparcClassing running Linux 2.0.17, gcc 2.7.2 (1.8.87)
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VAX:
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VAX running VMS 6.2 (1.9+patches, client-only)
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(see README.VMS for information on necessary hacks).
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(footnote 1)
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AIX 4.1 systems fail to run "configure" due to bugs in their
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"/bin/sh" implementation. You might want to try feeding the
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configure script to "bash" ported to AIX 4.1. (about 1.4A2).
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(footnote 2)
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Some Irix 4.0 systems may core dump in malloc while running
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CVS. We believe this is a bug in the Irix malloc. You can
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workaround this bug by linking with "-lmalloc" if necessary.
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(about 1.4A2).
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(footnote 4) Comment out the include of sys/time.h in src/server.c. (1.4.93)
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You also may have to make sure TIME_WITH_SYS_TIME is undef'ed.
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(footnote 5) Change /usr/tmp to /var/tmp in src/server.c (2 places) (1.4.93).
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(This should no longer be needed; CVS doesn't have /usr/tmp in
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src/server.c any more. Has anyone tried a more recent version
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on BSDI? If so, please report it so we can update this file).
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(footnote 6) Build in ucb universe with COFF compiler tools. Put
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/usr/local/bin first in PATH while doing a configure, make
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and install of GNU diffutils-2.7, rcs-5.7, then cvs-1.5.
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(footnote 7) Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@pilgrim.umass.edu> reports
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success with this configure command:
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CC=cc CFLAGS='-O2 -Olimit 2000 -std1' ./configure --verbose alpha-dec-osf
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(footnote 8) Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@pilgrim.umass.edu> reports
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success with this configure command:
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CC=cc CFLAGS='+O2 -Aa -D_HPUX_SOURCE' ./configure --verbose hppa1.1-hp-hpux
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(footnote 9)
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Had to configure with ./configure --host=<arch>-lynx.
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In src/cvs.h, protected the waitpid prototype with ifdef _POSIX_SOURCE.
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(I might try building with gcc -mposix -D_POSIX_SOURCE.)
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LynxOS has <dirent.h>, but you don't want to use it.
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You want to use <sys/dir.h> instead.
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So after running configure I had to undef HAVE_DIRENT_H and
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define HAVE_SYS_DIR_H.
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Installation under Unix (if you got a binary distribution from
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somewhere, install it according to procedure for that binary
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distribution, then skip to step 5):
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1) Run "configure":
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$ ./configure
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You can specify an alternate destination to override the default with
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the --prefix option:
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$ ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/gnu
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or some path that is more appropriate for your site. The default prefix
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value is "/usr/local", with binaries in sub-directory "bin", manual
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pages in sub-directory "man", and libraries in sub-directory "lib".
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A normal build of CVS will create an executable which supports
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local, server, or client CVS (if you don't know the difference,
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it is described in the Repository chapter of doc/cvs.texinfo). If
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you do not intend to use client or server CVS, you may want to
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prevent these features from being included in the executable you
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build. You can do this with the --disable-client and
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--disable-server options:
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$ ./configure --disable-client --disable-server
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Typically this can reduce the size of the executable by around 30%.
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If you are using server or local CVS, RCS needs to be installed in
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the user's PATH (or a path you have configured in src/options.h,
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or a path specified with the -b option). If you don't have RCS,
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you will need to get it from GNU as well. It is best to get the
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version 5.7 (or later) version of RCS, available from
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prep.ai.mit.edu in the file pub/gnu/rcs-5.7.tar.gz. If you do not
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have RCS version 5.x (for example, if you are using the old RCS
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shipped with some versions of HPUX), CVS will probably fail to work
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entirely. To find out what version of RCS you have, invoke "co -V".
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If it fails to print a version number, it is an old version.
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If you want version control of files with binary data, make sure
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that the RCS configure script finds GNU diff 1.15 or later and
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notices that diff supports the -a option. CVS itself is much less
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picky about which version of diff it uses, and you shouldn't need
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to worry about that. If you are using GNU diff 2.6 or 2.7, you may
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want to know about a (subtle) bug described in doc/DIFFUTILS-2.7-BUG.
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NOTE: The configure program will cache the results of the previous
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configure execution. If you need to re-run configure from scratch, you
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may need to run "make distclean" first to remove the cached
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configuration information.
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If you are using gcc and are planning to modify CVS, you may want to
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configure with -Wall; see the file HACKING for details.
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If you have Kerberos 4 installed, you can specify the location of
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the header files and libraries using the --with-krb4=DIR option.
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DIR should be a directory with subdirectories include and lib
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holding the Kerberos 4 header files and libraries, respectively.
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The default value is /usr/kerberos.
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If you want to enable support for encryption over Kerberos, use
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the --enable-encryption option. This option is disabled by
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default.
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Try './configure --help' for further information on its usage.
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NOTE ON CVS's USE OF NDBM:
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By default, CVS uses some built-in ndbm emulation code to allow
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CVS to work in a heterogeneous environment. However, if you have
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a very large modules database, this may not work well. You will
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need to edit src/options.h to turn off the MY_NDBM #define and
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re-run configure. If you do this, the following comments apply.
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If not, you may safely skip these comments.
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If you configure CVS to use the real ndbm(3) libraries and
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you do not have them installed in a "normal" place, you will
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probably want to get the GNU version of ndbm (gdbm) and install
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that before running the CVS configure script. Be aware that the
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GDBM 1.5 release does NOT install the <ndbm.h> header file included
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with the release automatically. You may have to install it by hand.
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If you configure CVS to use the ndbm(3) libraries, you cannot
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compile CVS with GNU cc (gcc) on Sun-4 SPARC systems. However, gcc
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2.0 may have fixed this limitation if -fpcc-struct-return is
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defined. When using gcc on other systems to compile CVS, you *may*
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need to specify the -fpcc-struct-return option to gcc (you will
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*know* you have to if "cvs checkout" core dumps in some ndbm
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function). You can do this as follows:
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$ CC='gcc -fpcc-struct-return' ./configure
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for sh, bash, and ksh users and:
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% setenv CC 'gcc -fpcc-struct-return'
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% ./configure
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for csh and tcsh users.
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END OF NOTE FOR NDBM GUNK.
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2) Edit src/options.h. Appropriate things to look at may be the
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invocation locations of programs like DIFF.
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Also glance at the default values for the environment variables
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that CVS uses, in particular, the RCSBIN variable, which holds the
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path to where the RCS programs live on your system.
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3) Try to build it:
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$ make
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This will (hopefully) make the needed CVS binaries within the
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"src" directory. If something fails for your system, and you want
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to submit a bug report, you may wish to include your
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"config.status" file, your host type, operating system and
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compiler information, make output, and anything else you think
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will be helpful.
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3a) Run the regression tests (optional).
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You may also wish to validate the correctness of the new binary by
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running the regression tests. If they succeed, that is nice to
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know. However, if they fail, it doesn't tell you much. Often it
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will just be a problem with running the tests on your machine,
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rather than a problem with CVS. Unless you will have the time to
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determine which of the two it is in case of failure, you might
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want to save yourself the time and just not run the tests.
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If you want to run the tests, see the file TESTS for more information.
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4) Install the binaries/documentation:
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$ make install
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Depending on your installation's configuration, you may need to be
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root to do this.
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5) Take a look at the CVS documentation.
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$ man cvs
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and
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$ info cvs
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See what it can do for you, and if it fits your environment (or can
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possibly be made to fit your environment). If things look good,
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continue on...
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6) Set up the master source repository. See the "Setting up the repository"
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section of cvs.texinfo for details; the one-line summary is (if you
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are putting the repository in /src/master):
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$ cvs -d /src/master init
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7) Have all users of the CVS system set the CVSROOT environment
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variable appropriately to reflect the placement of your source
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repository. If the above example is used, the following commands
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can be placed in user's ~/.profile, ~/.bash_profile file; or in the
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site-wide /etc/profile:
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CVSROOT=/src/master; export CVSROOT
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for sh/bash/ksh users, or place the following commands in the user's
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~/.cshrc, ~/.login, or /etc/chsrc file:
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setenv CVSROOT /src/master
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for csh/tcsh users. If these environment variables are not already set
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in your current shell, set them now (or source the login script you
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just edited). You will need to have the CVSROOT environment variable
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set to continue on to the next step.
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8) It might be a good idea to jump right in and put the CVS distribution
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directly under CVS control. From within the top-level directory of the
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CVS distribution (the one that contains this README file) do the
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following commands:
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$ make distclean
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$ cvs import -m 'CVS 1.6 distribution' cvs CVS_DIST CVS-1_6
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9) Having done step 8, one should be able to checkout a fresh copy of the
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CVS distribution and hack away at the sources with the following command:
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$ cd
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$ cvs checkout cvs
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This will make the directory "cvs" in your current directory and
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populate it with the appropriate CVS files and directories.
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10) You may wish to customize the various administrative files, in particular
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modules. See cvs.texinfo for details.
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11) Read the NEWS file to see what's new.
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12) Hack away.
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Detailed information about your interaction with "configure":
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The "configure" script and its interaction with its options and the
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environment is described here. For more detailed documentation about
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"configure", please refer to the GNU Autoconf documentation.
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Supported options are:
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--srcdir=DIR Useful for compiling on many different
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machines sharing one source tree.
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--prefix=DIR The root of where to install the
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various pieces of CVS (/usr/local).
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--exec_prefix=DIR If you want executables in a
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host-dependent place and shared
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things in a host-independent place.
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The following environment variables override configure's default
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behaviour:
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CC If not set, tries to use gcc first,
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then cc. Also tries to use "-g -O"
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as options, backing down to -g
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alone if that doesn't work.
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INSTALL If not set, tries to use "install", then
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"./install-sh" as a final choice.
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RANLIB If not set, tries to determine if "ranlib"
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is available, choosing "echo" if it doesn't
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appear to be.
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YACC If not set, tries to determine if "bison"
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is available, choosing "yacc" if it doesn't
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appear to be.
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Installation under Windows NT:
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You may find interesting information in windows-NT/README.
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1) Using Microsoft Visual C++ version 2.1, open the project `cvsnt.mak',
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in the top directory of the CVS distribution.
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2) Choose "Build cvs.exe" from the "Project" menu.
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3) MSVC will place the executable file cvs.exe in WinDebug, or whatever
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your target directory is.
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