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From:	"Nimrod Abing" <n_abing AT hotmail DOT com>
To:	djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject:	CVS 1.10 (under DJGPP) quirks
Date:	Mon, 28 Aug 2000 14:45:06 PHT
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Reply-To:	djgpp AT delorie DOT com

Hello. I was just wondering if anyone else has noticed these ``quirks''
with CVS 1.10 and Emacs 19 under DJGPP. I'm using Windoze 98 to run
DJGPP so I can use LFN and stuff, and I set it up as follows:

I have a directory for DJGPP files and one directory for my projects.
The DJGPP directory is C:\STUFF\USR and it is subst'ed via autoexec.bat
to virtual drive G: My projects directory is C:\Projects is subst'ed to
virtual drive H: Now, I've set up H:/ as my HOME directory. In this
HOME I have all my _bashrc, _emacs, and other configuration files. All
was working fine until I decided to download and install CVS 1.10.
So as directed in CVS readme, I set up the repository. I've set up a
CVS repo on my Linux box before, so it was pretty straightforward with
DJGPP version of CVS. I added +CVSROOT=h:/srcvault and
+CVSEDITOR=g:/gnu/emacs/bin/emacs.exe to DJGPP.ENV. I try ``cvs init''
from BASH, it takes a long time to init the CVS repo then cvs complains
that it cannot access or write to ``H:\/.cvsignore''! Huh? Okay, so
it must be that HOME should be ``H:'' instead of ``H:/'', so I make
the changes. All works fine with ``cvs init''. So I try to import some
projects... Okay so far... I try to edit some sources with Emacs. What's
this? It seems Emacs has reverted to its primitive state. It would seem
that Emacs has failed to find H:/_emacs. Ohhboy! What to do. I try so
many things with the environment variables until I got it right. I mean
until I got Emacs and CVS to work together without affecting each other's
quirky behavior. Here's how I did it (all stuffed into DJGPP.ENV):

1. I moved srcvault to %DJDIR%. Hence +CVSROOT=%DJDIR%/srcvault.
2. HOME is still +HOME=h:/
3. +CVSEDITOR (and section [cvs]) is removed and replaced with global
   +EDITOR=%DJDIR%/gnu/emacs/bin/emacs.exe

Voila! It works. Now cvs works as it should, and emacs can now find
h:/_emacs.

And now for one last quirk. ``cvs release -d project'' fails with an
error message:
CVS release: deletion of directory project failed: Permission denied(EACCES)

I'm planning to download the sources to fix this, that is when I can find
the time to download it.

I hope this was mildly amusing.

Bye.


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