From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Stefan Monnier " Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: pcl-cvs help Date: 23 Jan 2003 18:01:29 -0500 Organization: Yale University Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <5l65sfa2t2.fsf@rum.cs.yale.edu> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1043363445 6793 80.91.224.249 (23 Jan 2003 23:10:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 23:10:45 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18bqUQ-0001kz-00 for ; Fri, 24 Jan 2003 00:10:30 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18bqUD-0007dO-07 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 23 Jan 2003 18:10:17 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!news.ycc.yale.edu!rum.cs.yale.edu!rum.cs.yale.edu Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 49 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: rum.cs.yale.edu User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 X-Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: rum.cs.yale.edu X-Original-Trace: 23 Jan 2003 18:01:29 -0500, rum.cs.yale.edu Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:109394 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:5916 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:5916 >>>>> "Jim" == Jim Hourihan writes: > I'm having all sorts of problems getting pcl-cvs to correctly parse CVS > output. Generally, it works, but often it will have parse errors when doing > cvs-status. VC directory works fine on the same directory. Can you edit the file .../lisp/pcvs.el and change the line (process-connection-type nil) ; Use a pipe, not a pty. into ;; If process-connection-type is nil and the repository ;; is accessed via SSH, a bad interaction between libc, ;; CVS and SSH can lead to garbled output. ;; It might be a glibc-specific problem. ;; Until the problem is cleared, we'll use a pty rather than ;; a pipe. ;; (process-connection-type nil) ; Use a pipe, not a pty. and then byte-compile the file and finally see if it helps ? This applies to both the Emacs-21 code and the 2.9.9 version as well. > In addition, I can't seem to figure out which version of pcl-cvs comes with > emacs 21. There isn't a function or variable that I can find or even a > comment in the source code that assigns a version to the package. PCL-CVS' home is now Emacs. I.e. you now have PCL-CVS version 21.2 ;-) It's more recent than 2.9.9 and, as a matter of fact, it's the latest released version. The very latest version is the one in the CVS trunk of Emacs (and it has the workaround shown above). > I've downloaded Stefan Monnier's 2.9.9 version and that's better, but it > still has problems. Is there a developement version out there that's > better? Here's what I using: As mentioned, the development version can be gotten from http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/emacs > GNU Emacs 21.2.1 (powerpc-apple-darwin, X toolkit) > cvs version 1.10 I've never heard of the problem you're talking about on your platform, so maybe your problem is a different one (the fix suggested above has only been needed until for systems using GNU libc). Are you accessing the repository via SSH ? If the fix above solves your problem, please tell me so I will know that the problem is not specific to glibc contrary to my current impression. Stefan