cvs program malfunction

[bhaible]

The following totally standard use of the 'cvs' program yields an error. It does not do so on Linux or MacOS X.

rm -rf w repo mkdir w repo cd w mkdir d touch d/a b c cvs -Q -d cd ../repo && pwd init cvs -Q -d cd ../repo && pwd import -m imp m M M0

[bhaible]

screenshot of commands and error message

[kaliber]

CVS doesn't work because of broken mbrtowc() in libroot. It can be workarounded by disabling mbrtowc in cvs:

1. ./configure --prefix=/boot/common
2. remove line: HAVE_MBRTOWC in config.h
3. make && make install

[anevilyak]

Could you please try again with hrev28768 or higher? That revision updated Haiku's CVS package with kaliber's workaround.

[scottmc]

TODO: rebuild cvs-1.12.13 once mbrtowc() is fixed, perhaps this was fixed with hrev28970

[scottmc]

@Bruno, I'm guessing your command should be broken up like this?

rm -rf w repo 
mkdir w repo 
cd w mkdir d 
touch d/a b c 
cvs -Q -d cd ../repo && pwd init 
cvs -Q -d cd ../repo && pwd import -m imp m M M0

[bhaible]

The commands were the following. (Unfortunately the wiki formatting messed it up.)

rm -rf w repo
mkdir w repo
cd w
mkdir d
touch d/a b c
cvs -Q -d `cd ../repo && pwd` init
cvs -Q -d `cd ../repo && pwd` import -m imp m M M0

See also in the attached image.

[scottmc]

Here's a log of my building of cvs-1.12.13, maybe someone can spot one of the failed checks that might be related to this not working right?

[scottmc]

Replying to scottmc:

TODO: rebuild cvs-1.12.13 once mbrtowc() is fixed, perhaps this was fixed with hrev28970

I just rebuilt with hrev29182 and the mbrtowc() seems to work now, but didn't fix this issue. I've posted the terminal output from my build in case someone spots an issue there that might cause the failure listed here. Note the output of this test is at the end of my build log.

[scottmc]

I no longer see this error with a new build of cvs with the wchar fix in place. Leave open until the wchar fix is moved into trunk.

[scottmc]

This ticket can be closed now as the wchar fix is in trunk and the cvs optional package has been updated.

[stippi]

Ok, thanks for the update! Fixed in hrev31443.