From: jsturm AT sigma6 DOT com (Jeff Sturm) Subject: Re: Cygwin newbie questions 12 Sep 1998 21:25:34 -0700 Message-ID: <35FABBCF.B11C2BFA.cygnus.gnu-win32@sigma6.com> References: <35F99135 DOT 4E7B94E3 AT sd DOT inri DOT com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Steve Grubbs Cc: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Steve Grubbs wrote: > 1) At my new job, I'm working under WinNT, but we use good ol' CVS for revision > control (archive is on a Unix box). I don't really know the source of the "cvs" > executable (our 2 main sysadmins just left within 2 weeks, so nobody I've asked > really knows where they came from). The problem is that it doesn't work under > cygwin. It works fine from a cmd prompt, but if I run it from cygwin, I get no > output. I don't get "command not found", I just get nothing. Any ideas what's up > with this? > BTW, I test this with safe cvs commands like "cvs -v", which should work even if > cvs settings were messed up. Hi Steve, We use CVS over NT extensively. After trying the several command-line tools available from www.cyclic.com (and pulling out much hair dealing with buggy CRLF translations) I found that compiling CVS from scratch under cygwin32 is by far the best option. For CVS use alone I have installed a subset of cygwin32 on over a dozen workstations at our site. You can get the same at ftp://ftp.sigma6.com/pub/cvs/cygcvs.zip if you happen to need a scaled-down cygwin32 package for CVS use. > 2) One thought I had was to download cvs source and compile it under cygwin. > When I try to run "configure", though, I get "bash: ./configure: No such file or > directory". But configure IS there.... What's up with that? Does configure not > work? Do I just have to edit the Makefile myself? CVS *does* compile out-of-the-box on gnu-win32. Chances are the configure script is looking for /bin/sh. Do you have a mount under /bin? I use: mount -b C:/Cygnus/B19/bin /bin so that tools hardwired for /bin/sh will work. Also, CVS *requires* binary mounts. All of my mounts are in binary mode, plus I use binmode in my CYGWIN32 variable. > 3) FTP hangs from cygwin. I assume its calling the WinNT ftp. Does this just not > work? Do I need to get a different ftp for cygwin? This is a known problem; I think it was solved with on of the updates. I'd suggest getting Sergey's coolview package from ftp://www.lexa.ru/pub/domestic/sos/coolview.tar.gz (it has an updated cygwinb19.dll) and enabling binmode and tty in your CYGWIN32 variable. Also on Sergey's site is an inetutils package with cygwin32-native ftp and telnet clients, among other things. (Note that the cygcvs package on my site already has a recently-patched cygwinb19.dll, plus CVS binaries and installation suggestions.) -- Jeff Sturm jsturm AT sigma6 DOT com - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".