Mail Archives: djgpp-announce/2020/04/06/14:42:29
This is a port of CVS 1.11.23 to MSDOS/DJGPP.
CVS is a version control system, which allows you to keep old versions
of files (usually source code), keep a log of who, when, and why changes
occurred, etc. It handles multiple developers, multiple directories,
triggers to enable/log/control various operations, and can work over a
wide area network.
IMPORTANT: CVS uses many filenames for its files that are invalid under
MS-DOS. You will need LFN support to run this program under plain DOS.
It is very unlikely that it may be possible to port this program to a
SFN OS without breaking the complete code. I will certainly not try.
DJGPP specific changes.
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- The source archives that have been used to create this port can be
downloaded as:
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/non-gnu/cvs/source/stable/1.11.23/cvs-1.11.23.tar.bz2
http://www.zlib.net/zlib-1.2.11.tar.gz
- Lately I have observed that the CVS program seems to hang after
having successfully finished the operation. This happens on plain
DOS when the DOSIDLE.EXE program has been loaded. CVS uses the
usleep() function for timing control and the way usleep() is
implemented in DJGPP seems to intefer with DOSIDLE.EXE. This
type of issues generated by DOSIDLE.EXE has already been observed
in the port of PDCurses. As soon as DOSIDLE.EXE is no longer loaded
the CVS program works flawlessly again on all supported and tested
operating systems.
Affortunately the CVS code provides an alternative timig control
using the select() function instead of the usleep() function.
This has been exploited in this new version of this port. No other
changes have been done. With this changes the port works flawlessly
on all supported and tested operating systems no matter if DOSIDLE.EXE
has been loaded or not. If you do not care about this issue,
you do not need to update to this new version. Because I seen no
reason to keep both versions of the port, I have replaced to old
one with this new one.
- The port has been configured and compiled on Win98SE, MS-DOS 7.10 using
DOSLFN 0.41c and on MS-DOS 6.22 using DOSLFN 0.41c. There is absolute
no guarantee that this may be possible with any other DOS-like OS. Due
to the use of long file names it will not be possible to configure and
compile without LFN support.
- This version of the port has been compiled using gcc346 and bnu234b.
As usual, all djgpp specific files (diffs, README files, etc.) are stored
in the "djgpp" directory. The sources have been configured to be build in
the "_build" directory. If for some reason it does not work for you,
delete its contents and configure from scratch again.
For further information about CVS please read the info docs and NEWS file.
Here is an extract of the ChangeLog file showing the user visible changes
from the last port (CVS 1.10) to this one:
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The list of changes between version 1.10 and 1.11.23 is to long
to be reproduced here. See the ChangeLog file for details.
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The port consists of the usual three packages that have been produced using
djdev205 (CVS repository code) and can be downloaded from ftp.delorie.com
and mirrors as (time stamp 2020-04-04):
CVS 1.11.23 binary and info format documentation:
ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/current/v2gnu/cvs111b.zip
CVS 1.11.23 dvi, html, ps and pdf format documentation:
ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/current/v2gnu/cvs111d.zip
CVS 1.11.23 source:
ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/current/v2gnu/cvs111s.zip
Send CVS specific bug reports to <bug-cvs AT nongnu DOT org>.
Send suggestions and bug reports concerning the DJGPP port to
comp.os.msdos.djgpp or <djgpp AT delorie DOT com>.
Enjoy.
Guerrero, Juan Manuel <juan DOT guerrero AT gmx DOT de>
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