>Subject: Re: UNIX version doesn't handle ^M in Entries/Repository if
DOS ver used
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2000 14:31:14 -0400 (EDT)
>Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Larry Jones)
>X-Mailing-List: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archive/latest/2394
>
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>>
>> >Description:
>> If you have a shared filesystem that is sometimes accessed by
the
>> Win32 version and sometimes under UNIX, the UNIX version barfs
>> because the DOS version leaves ^M cookies at the end of each
line
>> in CVS/Entries, CVS/Repository, CVS/Root, etc AND because the
>> UNIX line-reading code isn't aggressive enough about
portability
>> to strip out trailing ^M's.
>
>Don't do that. Working directories are not designed to be shared
>between systems with incompatible file formats (e.g., DOS and Unix).
>Put the repository on a shared file system if you must (and even then
>it's better to use client/server CVS instead), but *NEVER* try to
share
>working directories.
>
This seems like a bug to me. We want to do cross-platform development
and we would like to compile the same source on all platforms without
having to check it in first. We have the following structure for the
each package in our system:
pkg
src
tgt
sol4 - For Sparc Solaris
soli - For Intel Solaris
win32 - For Windows
This allows the same source to be compiled from the same location for
multiple platforms.
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Stephen Rasku E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Senior Software Engineer Phone: (604) 872-6676
TGI Technologies Web: http://www.tgivan.com/
