karls@cs.Colorado.EDU (Karl Sierka) (04/15/91)
Anybody doing any software development on your NeXT machines?
I spent the better part of last week getting CVS and RCS to work
on my 030/1.0a NeXT machine. I have created a set of patches (using
CVS, of course. :-) that should make it pretty easy for you to get
them working on your machine. These are patches to the latest versions
of RCS and CVS, as found on prep.ai.mit.edu and other archive sites.
The patches assume you will be using GNU diff 1.15, with
everything installed in /usr/local/bin. I don't think there were any
patches required to get GNU diff running. These patches may also work
for machines running 2.0/2.1. If you get them and find that they don't
work on a 2.1 machine, please let me know. I should have a 2.1 040
machine up and running in a week or so, if my order for an 040 board
comes in as promised, so I'll be able to try that port then.
Please send me email if you want them. If there is enough
interest, I'll post the patches to the NeXT archive sites, if someone
will remind me how to do this.
Reminder: to apply the patches, you need Larry Wall's patch
program installed on your machine. You should be able to get it from
an archive site near you.
What is CVS/RCS? It is a set of UNIX command line programs that
can help you maintain software system versions and multiple lines of
software evolution among one or more programmers. It also helps you
maintain software that you have taken from the Net, and want to
maintain your own set of patches to, while easing the problem of
merging in patches that may come from other patch creators. These
systems come with papers describing what they do and why they are
useful. RCS can be used separately from CVS, but CVS requires RCS. It
appears the problem of maintaining binary files has been fixed, so if
your system has some binary data bases or object files that must be
stored with a particular revision level, that should not be too hard
to do. (IB project files come to mind...)
Again, send me email if you are interested, and enjoy.
Karl Sierka
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