Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sourceware.cygnus.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com From: Michael Weiser To: "Noel L Yap" Cc: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Subject: Re: rcs for CygWin? Date: Mon, 27 Dec 1999 20:55:01 +0100 Message-ID: <6hgf6sci7qsbj8i28s1bks7q3tadshps5b@mail.weiser.saale-net.de> References: <85256854.00692019.00@nyc-ntgw-n01.ny.jpmorgan.com> In-Reply-To: <85256854.00692019.00@nyc-ntgw-n01.ny.jpmorgan.com> X-Mailer: Forte Agent 1.7/32.534 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hello Noel, you wrote: >Does anyone know of any rcs packages for NT (preferably free)? 1. native NT port on http://download.cyclic.com/pub/rcs/ 2. my quite old binaries for stock B20.1 on ftp://ftp.franken.de/pub/win32/develop/gnuwin32/cygwin/porters/Weiser_Michael/B20/ If you want to use it with a newer snapshot you should compile it yourself following the instructions in ftp://ftp.franken.de/pub/win32/develop/gnuwin32/cygwin/porters/Weiser_Michael/B20/rcs-5.7-cygwin-b20-bin.README and consider the following hints given to me by Andre Oliveira da Costa who argued with a misbehaving rcs 5.7 a lot some time ago: >To make a long story short, I finally managed (with help from _a lot_ of >people, including you) to get RCS v5.7 working flawlessly on my NT4SP5. To >accomplish that, I had to: > >* download the latest snapshot, to correct a bug on readlink(), as pointed >by Kazuhiro Fujieda (remember, I'm using B20.1, not >v1.0) > >* recreate /etc/passwd and /etc/group with the new mkpasswd and mkgroup > >* enable the ntsec feature (and ntea, although I'm not sure this was part of >the solution or not) > >* remount all my mounts as binary > >* recompile RCS directly from source > >I've been using it for a while now, and it seems to be pretty stable -- no >problems found so far. Hope that helps. -- bye, Michael -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com