cvs-status suddenly broken

cvs-status suddenly broken

[Kevin Rodgers]

I'm using Emacs 21.4 on Solaris 9 (x86), and cvs-status is no longer
showing 1 file per line but now displays a bunch of italicized lines
from the " *cvs-tmp*" buffer prefixed with "Message:".  This appears to
be the same symptom others have reported, to which Stefan has responded
that it is likely due to a known bug in CVS+SSH+libc on GNU/Linux or
MacOS X.

But I'm not on either of those operating systems, and my CVSROOT
specifies the pserver protocol.

The cvs binary and the shared libraries it links to haven't changed on
my desktop, but CVS on the remote Solaris 8 SPARC server was just
upgraded from feature version 1.12.8 (released in May 2004) to feature
version 1.12.13 (released in Oct. 2005), from the distribution at
http://ftp.gnu.org/non-gnu/cvs/binary/feature/sparc-sunos/

Any ideas on what's gone wrong and how I can fix it?

Thanks,
-- 
Kevin Rodgers

Re: cvs-status suddenly broken

[Stefan Monnier]

> The cvs binary and the shared libraries it links to haven't changed on
> my desktop, but CVS on the remote Solaris 8 SPARC server was just
> upgraded from feature version 1.12.8 (released in May 2004) to feature
> version 1.12.13 (released in Oct. 2005), from the distribution at
> http://ftp.gnu.org/non-gnu/cvs/binary/feature/sparc-sunos/

The output format of "cvs status" has slightly changed (they added
a commit-ID line IIRC).
Try Emacs-CVS's pcvs-parse.el which understands this new format.


        Sefan

Re: cvs-status suddenly broken

[Kevin Rodgers]

Stefan Monnier wrote:
>>The cvs binary and the shared libraries it links to haven't changed on
>>my desktop, but CVS on the remote Solaris 8 SPARC server was just
>>upgraded from feature version 1.12.8 (released in May 2004) to feature
>>version 1.12.13 (released in Oct. 2005), from the distribution at
>>http://ftp.gnu.org/non-gnu/cvs/binary/feature/sparc-sunos/
> 
> 
> The output format of "cvs status" has slightly changed (they added
> a commit-ID line IIRC).
> Try Emacs-CVS's pcvs-parse.el which understands this new format.

Yes, thank you!!!

Would there be any harm in using all the pcvs*.el files from CVS in
Emacs 21?

-- 
Kevin Rodgers

Re: cvs-status suddenly broken

[Kevin Rodgers]

Kevin Rodgers wrote:
 > Would there be any harm in using all the pcvs*.el files from CVS in
 > Emacs 21?

I tried to compile all the CVS pcvs*.el files in Emacs 21.4, and only
pcvs-defs.el and pcvs-parse.el compiled cleanly, so it's probably not a
good idea.  Here are the warnings from the others:

While compiling the end of the data in file /var/tmp/pcvs-info.el:
  ** The following functions are not known to be defined:
    define-obsolete-variable-alias, define-obsolete-function-alias

While compiling cvs-string->strings in file /var/tmp/pcvs-util.el:
  ** split-string called with 3 arguments, but accepts only 1-2
  ** split-string called with 3 arguments, but accepts only 1-2

While compiling the end of the data in file /var/tmp/pcvs.el:
  ** The following functions are not known to be defined:
    cvs-fileinfo->full-name, process-put, process-get,
    read-directory-name, posn-set-point, smerge-ediff, vc-editable-p,
    vc-checkout

-- 
Kevin Rodgers