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Date: Mon, 15 Nov 1999 06:38:33 -0800 (PST)
From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>
Reply-To: earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com
Subject: Re: [NOT FIXED] Symbolic links & RCS -- READ IT!
To: "David O'Riva" <oriva AT agames DOT com>, cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
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--- David O'Riva <oriva AT agames DOT com> wrote:
> 
> Andre Oliveira da Costa wrote:
> > 
> > Well, I'm sorry to say that this is _not_ great news -- I said "OK" too
> soon
> > =T The RCS tools I created did understand the symbolic links scheme of
> > Cygwin, but they show some strange behavior that makes it impossible to use
> > them. ci.exe is unable to check-in files if they don't exist on the RCS
> dir;
> > it complains about being unable to create the files on the RCS dir due to
> > permission problems, and aborts leaving some temporary files around in my
> > HD.
> > 
> 
> Yeah - I remember this from b19.  Had to rebuild them myself about a
> week ago, so I took the time to work up a reasonable patch to the
> distribution (attached).  This should work for b19 and b20/.1.
> 

I would like to add that the current version of CVS compiles OOB with Cygwin
without headaches.

=====
Earnie Boyd <mailto:earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>
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