Re: GNULib save-cwd.c on Windows Visual Studio 6.0

2005-03-09 Thread Jim Meyering
Here's a patch that should restore the ability of save-cwd to work on systems without the fchdir function. Would you please see if this is sufficient? If so, I'll check it in to gnulib (with an AC_CHECK_FUNCS(fchdir) in save-cwd.m4). Index: save-cwd.c

Defect with Diff3 utility

2005-03-09 Thread Rahul Nerlikar
Hi, Could anyone shed some light on this peculiarity of the diff3 utility? Here’s the example OLDFile is as below, #ENGLISH Resource File #DoNotTranslate L6_WINDOWS = OK|O # fail to enable path.

intermittenly happens when using commit

2005-03-09 Thread Romeo Gourgue
Some times when I do a CVS commit, text like the following is appended to the bottom of the file that I have committed: ** date: Friday, February 18, 19105 @ 14:44 author: username Update of /data/implementation/cvs/operational/bin In directory

Re: [bug-gnulib] GNULIB wait-process module.

2005-03-09 Thread Derek Price
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bruno Haible wrote: | Thanks for explaining. Your objective is clear now. | | But how would you want this to work on Woe32? I assume that you | would want this debugging feature also on Windows. How do you | implement it there? Actually, the CVS server

RE: GNULib save-cwd.c on Windows Visual Studio 6.0

2005-03-09 Thread Conrad T. Pino
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Jim, From: Jim Meyering [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] This is not about Microsoft per se, but simply about the lack of fchdir (or POSIX support in general) in WOE. I agree let's not enumerate Microsoft's flaws as we would never finish. :) I

RE: GNULib save-cwd.c on Windows Visual Studio 6.0

2005-03-09 Thread Conrad T. Pino
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Jim, From: Jim Meyering [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Here's a patch that should restore the ability of save-cwd to work on systems without the fchdir function. Would you please see if this is sufficient? If so, I'll check it in to gnulib

Re: Feature request/ideas

2005-03-09 Thread Derek Price
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Frank Hemer wrote: | Here is a more detailed description of the tag-extensions: Mostly this sounds great, with the few questions/exceptions that I have noted. Could you write the final version up as a patch to doc/cvs.texinfo? | '.origin': Will always

RE: this happens sometimes

2005-03-09 Thread Jim.Hyslop
Romeo Gourgue wrote two variations on the following: Some times when I do a CVS commit, text like the following is appended to the bottom of the file that I have committed: ** date: Friday, February 18, 19105 @ 14:44 author: username Update of

Re: Feature request/ideas

2005-03-09 Thread Frank Hemer
On Wednesday 09 March 2005 15:50, Derek Price wrote: Frank Hemer wrote: | Here is a more detailed description of the tag-extensions: Mostly this sounds great, with the few questions/exceptions that I have noted. Could you write the final version up as a patch to doc/cvs.texinfo? I

proxy environment variables

2005-03-09 Thread Frank Hemer
Hi, the 1.12.x series contains the http tunnel web proxy patch. This patch originaly allowed to specify the proxy and proxyport using environment variables (PSERVER_PROXY) in the form of 'my.proxy.server[:PORT]', in addition to specifying it in the CVSROOT. This has the advantage of not

RE: windows-NT/mkconfig.pl windows-NT/fix-msvc-mak.pl change

2005-03-09 Thread Conrad T. Pino
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Derek, I'm slow to understand the goal. I'm coming to the conclusion what you're trying is eliminate the difference between: *** config.h.in, generated by mkconfig: as opposed to: *** config.h.in, generated by mkconfig.pl:

Re: Feature request/ideas

2005-03-09 Thread Derek Price
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Frank Hemer wrote: | On Wednesday 09 March 2005 15:50, Derek Price wrote: | | Frank Hemer wrote: | Here is a more detailed description of the | tag-extensions: | | Mostly this sounds great, with the few questions/exceptions that | I have noted. | |

Re: windows-NT/mkconfig.pl windows-NT/fix-msvc-mak.pl change

2005-03-09 Thread Derek Price
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Conrad T. Pino wrote: | Previously I wasn't aware of the existence of the intermediates on | UNIX and of course they don't exist on Windows. The commands I ran | on both Windows and UNIX are: | | cd ccvs perl windows-NT/fix-msvc-mak.pl cd windows-NT

Re: Feature request/ideas

2005-03-09 Thread Mark D. Baushke
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Derek Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In the case where the information came out of the directory CVS/Tag file, it becomes available in vers-nonbranch, but not otherwise. In other cases, the RCS file gets parsed anyhow, but only on the server.

Re: Feature request/ideas

2005-03-09 Thread Frank Hemer
| | '.origin': Will always resolve to the very first revision. If a | | | | file has been added on a branch, .origin will resolve to the | | first | revision on that branch, otherwise it will follow the | mainline. | | '.root': Will resolv to the predecessor of the | first revision on |

Re: Feature request/ideas

2005-03-09 Thread Frank Hemer
On Wednesday 09 March 2005 21:08, Mark D. Baushke wrote: Derek Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In the case where the information came out of the directory CVS/Tag file, it becomes available in vers-nonbranch, but not otherwise. In other cases, the RCS file gets parsed anyhow, but only on

Re: Feature request/ideas

2005-03-09 Thread Derek Price
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Frank Hemer wrote: | a revision on BRANCH's parent. This makes sense when speaking | about individual files, but use of .origin with multiple files | probably deserves some sort of warning to the user that what they | asked for may not make sense. | |

Re: Feature request/ideas

2005-03-09 Thread Mark D. Baushke
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Derek Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Frank Hemer wrote: | a revision on BRANCH's parent. This makes sense when speaking | about individual files, but use of .origin with multiple files | probably deserves some sort of warning to the user that

Re: GNULib save-cwd.c on Windows Visual Studio 6.0

2005-03-09 Thread Jim Meyering
Conrad T. Pino [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... Would you please see if this is sufficient? If so, I'll check it in to gnulib (with an AC_CHECK_FUNCS(fchdir) in save-cwd.m4). The patch as submitted does not compile. This line fails: return fchdir (cwd-desc); The patch at message end does

RE: GNULib save-cwd.c on Windows Visual Studio 6.0

2005-03-09 Thread Conrad T. Pino
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Jim, From: Jim Meyering [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Conrad T. Pino [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... Would you please see if this is sufficient? If so, I'll check it in to gnulib (with an AC_CHECK_FUNCS(fchdir) in save-cwd.m4). The patch