First, read the README file. If you're still happy... The CVS 1.3 Beta testers (bless their hearts) verified that CVS compiled correctly on the following platforms: 386 running Interactive Unix ISC 2.2.1 386 running SCO Xenix 386, 2.3.2 ATT 3B2 running System VR3 (*) Altos running Altos Unix v5.3a System V/386 R3.2 (**) Atari/ST (2.5MB) running Minix 1.6.16 Cray X-MP running Unicos 6.1 DEC 3100 running Ultrix 4.0 Decstation 5000/200 running Ultrix 4.0, 4.1 (***), 4.2 Gateway2000 486/33C (486@33MHZ) running BSDI BSD/386 0.3 (Beta) HP 9000/360 running HP-UX 6.5 HP 9000/710 running HP-UX 8.07 HP 9000/730 running HP-UX 8.05 HP PA-RISC 800 running HP-UX 8.01 IBM RS/6000 running AIX 3.1, 3.2 Motorola 68030 running a System 5.3.2 derivative Motorola VME187 running SYSVR3 Motorola 88100 running R32V3 NEC EWS4800 running System VR4.0.2 NeXT 68040 running NeXT Mach 2.1 Omron Luna running UNIOS-B 4.3BSD 1.60 SGI Iris 4D running Irix 3.3.2 (****), Irix 4.0.1, Irix 4.0.2C Sony NEWS Workstation running NEWS-OS 4.0C Sumitomo Ustation running SEIUX3.2 Sun-3 running SunOS 4.0.3, 4.1, 4.1.1 Sun-386i running SunOS 4.0.2 Sun-4/Sun-4c/Sun-4m running SunOS 4.1.1, 4.1.2, Solaris 2.0 (*) On the ATT 3B2, "tr" was not available (?). (**) The Altos system and had problems compiling lib/regex.c. (***) Ultrix 4.1 apparently has a nasty compiler/linker that doesn't work well with the CVS "configure" script. You will need to add fnmatch.o to the OBJECTS macro in lib/Makefile for CVS to compile on this system. (****) It has been reported that SGI machines running Irix 3.3.2 may hang during "cvs add" and leave an un-killable process. If you experience this, you can define "FSYNC_MISSING", re-compile src/subr.o and the problem should go away. This appears not to be a problem in Irix 4.0.1. CVS had some problems compiling/running on the following machines: None! NOTE: CVS relies on having some form of the opendir/readdir/closedir functions being available. Some older systems do not support these calls. CVS will not work with these systems unless a suitable readdir implementation is installed on the system. Take a look at the file "contrib/dirfns", which contains some code that might add this support to your system. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Installation: 1) Edit the src/config.h header file. Appropriate things to look at may be the invocation locations of programs like DIFF, GREP, RM, and SORT. Also glance at the default values for the environment variables that CVS uses, in particular, the RCSBIN variable, which holds the path to where the RCS programs live on your system. The likelihood is that you don't have to change anything here, except perhaps adding the -a option to DIFF if you are using GNU diff (which is recommended). 2) Run "configure": $ ./configure You can specify an alternate destination to override the default with the --prefix option: $ ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/gnu or some path that is more appropriate for your site. The default prefix value is "/usr/local", with binaries in sub-directory "bin", manual pages in sub-directory "man", and libraries in sub-directory "lib". "configure" tries to use "gcc -g -O" first. If that doesn't work, it will try to use "cc -g -O". If that doesn't work, it uses "cc -g". To override this, simply specify the options in the CC environment variable: $ CC="cc -O" ./configure for sh, bash, or ksh shell users or: % setenv CC "cc -O" % ./configure for csh, tcsh shell users. NOTE ON CVS's USE OF NDBM: By default, CVS uses some built-in ndbm emulation code to allow CVS to work in a heterogeneous environment. However, if you have a very large modules database, this may not work well. You will need to edit src/config.h to turn off the MY_NDBM #define and re-run configure. If you do this, the following comments apply. If not, you may safely skip these comments. If you configure CVS to use the real ndbm(3) libraries and you do not have them installed in a "normal" place, you will probably want to get the GNU version of ndbm (gdbm) and install that before running the CVS configure script. Be aware that the GDBM 1.5 release does NOT install the header file included with the release automatically. You may have to install it by hand. If you configure CVS to use the ndbm(3) libraries, you cannot compile CVS with GNU cc (gcc) on Sun-4 SPARC systems. However, gcc 2.0 may have fixed this limitation if -fpcc-struct-return is defined. When using gcc on other systems to compile CVS, you *may* need to specify the -fpcc-struct-return option to gcc (you will *know* you have to if "cvs checkout" core dumps in some ndbm function). You can do this as follows: $ CC=gcc DEFS=-fpcc-struct-return ./configure for sh, bash, and ksh users and: % setenv CC gcc % setenv DEFS -fpcc-struct-return % ./configure for csh and tcsh users. END OF NOTE FOR NDBM GUNK. This release of CVS also requires RCS commands to be installed in the user's PATH (or a path you have configured in src/config.h). If you don't have RCS, you will need to get it from GNU as well. It is best to get the version 5.6 (or later) version of RCS, available from prep.ai.mit.edu in the file pub/gnu/rcs-5.6.tar.Z. Along with RCS, you will want to run GNU diff. This will allow revision control of files with binary data (a real nice feature). You will need at least version 1.15 of GNU diff for this to work. 3) Try to build it: $ make This will (hopefully) make the needed CVS binaries within the "src" directory. Send me your "config.status" file with your host type, operating system information, and make output if something fails for your system. 4) Install the binaries/documentation: $ make install Depending on your installation's configuration, you may need to be root to do this. 5) Take a look at the CVS manual page. $ man cvs See what it can do for you, and if it fits your environment (or can possibly be made to fit your environment). If things look good, continue on... 6) Setup the master source repository. Choose a directory with ample disk space available for source files. This is where the RCS ",v" files will be stored. Note that this should be some shared directory for your site. It should probably be auto-mounted, if you're running NFS. Say you choose "/src/master" as the root of your source repository. Run the "cvsinit" script to help you set it up. It will ask you to enter the path to your CVSROOT area. You would enter /src/master in this example. $ ./cvsinit The cvsinit script will setup a reasonable CVSROOT area to start with. It is also valuable to folks who already have a CVSROOT area setup from using earlier releases of CVS. It assumes that you have installed CVS already (step 4) and that the RCS programs (co and ci) are in your PATH. There are many ways to customize CVS for your site. Read the cvs(5) manual page when you get the chance. 7) Have all users of the CVS system set the CVSROOT environment variable appropriately to reflect the placement of your source repository. If the above example is used, the following commands can be placed in user's ~/.profile, ~/.bash_profile, or ~/.login file: CVSROOT=/src/master; export CVSROOT for sh/bash/ksh users, or setenv CVSROOT /src/master for csh/tcsh users. If these environment variables are not already set in your current shell, set them now (or source the login script you just edited). You will need to have the CVSROOT environment variable set to continue on to the next step. 8) It might be a good idea to jump right in and put the CVS distribution directly under CVS control. From within the top-level directory of the CVS distribution (the one that contains this README file) do the following commands: $ make realclean $ cvs import -m 'CVS 1.3 distribution' cvs CVS CVS1_3 9) Having done step 8, one should be able to checkout a fresh copy of the CVS distribution and hack away at the sources with the following command: $ cd $ cvs checkout cvs This will make the directory "cvs" in your current directory and populate it with the appropriate CVS files and directories. 10) Remember to edit the modules file manually when sources are checked in with "cvs import" or "cvs add". A copy of the modules file for editing can usually be retrieved with the "cvs checkout modules" command, and definitely with the "cvs checkout CVSROOT" command. See cvs(5). 11) Read the ChangeLog file to see what's new. REALLY! I use the ChangeLog file as the Release Notes. 12) Hack away. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Detailed info about your interaction with "configure": The "configure" script and its interaction with its options and the environment is described here. Supported options are: --srcdir=DIR Useful for compiling on many different machines sharing one source tree. --prefix=DIR The root of where to install the various pieces of CVS (/usr/local). --exec_prefix=DIR If you want executables in a host-dependent place and shared things in a host-independent place. The following environment variables override configure's default behaviour: CC If not set, tries to use gcc first, then cc. Also tries to use "-g -O" as options, backing down to -g alone if that doesn't work. INSTALL If not set, tries to use "install", then "cp" as a final choice. RANLIB If not set, tries to determine if "ranlib" is available, choosing "echo" if it doesn't appear to be. YACC If not set, tries to determine if "bison" is available, choosing "yacc" if it doesn't appear to be. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------