Re: CVS command returns error

2006-04-13 Thread Eric Blake
Igor Peshansky cs.nyu.edu> writes: > > Well, editing the CVS files is likely to get you a repository that works > with neither version of cvs. That's why I suggested trying a text mount. > > FWIW, if you really do want to remove all CRs from the CVS administrative > files, you can use > > fin

Re: CVS command returns error

2006-04-13 Thread Igor Peshansky
On Thu, 13 Apr 2006, Michael Giroux wrote: > Igor, > Thanks for the help. > > SUCCESS!!! almost > > I edited /CVS/Repository to remove the CRLF. > > The status command then produced status for a portion of the > repository. I got an error trying to obtain a directory lock and > status was aborte

Re: CVS command returns error

2006-04-13 Thread Michael Giroux
Found the CRLF causing the problem. Every directory that is in the repository has a local CVS directory with Entries and Repository file. These also have CRLF that must be dealt with. Correcting those files resolves the problem. Thanks for all the help. Michael -- Unsubscribe info:

Re: CVS command returns error

2006-04-13 Thread Michael Giroux
Igor, Thanks for the help. SUCCESS!!! almost I edited /CVS/Repository to remove the CRLF. The status command then produced status for a portion of the repository. I got an error trying to obtain a directory lock and status was aborted by the server, but I suspect this is similar to the other p

Re: CVS command returns error

2006-04-12 Thread Igor Peshansky
Ugh, top-posting... Reformatted. On Wed, 12 Apr 2006, Michael Giroux wrote: > Igor Peshansky wrote: > > On Wed, 12 Apr 2006, Michael Giroux wrote: > > > > > The CVS related ANT tasks require that the cvs executable is on the > > > PATH. > > > > > > I have two versions of cvs installed, > > > one

Re: CVS command returns error

2006-04-12 Thread Michael Giroux
Igor, Thanks for the very complete answer. I had not considered the fact that there were two separate builds for windows and cygwin. Based on this, it seems that the correct solution is to set my PATH so that the windows version of CVS is in the PATH prior to cygwin version I suspect that y

Re: CVS command returns error

2006-04-12 Thread René Berber
Michael Giroux wrote: > The CVS related ANT tasks require that the cvs executable is on the PATH. Which is Windows' environment variable PATH, not necessarily the same as the shell variable PATH you see under Cygwin. Most important is that ant, like any other java application, uses Windows paths

Re: CVS command returns error

2006-04-12 Thread Igor Peshansky
On Wed, 12 Apr 2006, Michael Giroux wrote: > The CVS related ANT tasks require that the cvs executable is on the PATH. > > I have two versions of cvs installed, > one is at c:\bin\cvs\cvs.exe > The other at c:\cygwin\bin\cvs.exe I'm assuming the former is a Windows build of cvs. > Both versions

Re: CVS command returns error

2006-04-12 Thread Michael Giroux
BTW, any suggestions for helping to debug the problem will be appreciated. I normally use CVS via Eclipse and ANT tasks, so I'm not very familiar with the command-line, but I'll gladly try anything to sort out the problem. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Pr