pcl-cvs and ssh on Windows

pcl-cvs and ssh on Windows

[Brad Collins]

I've been having no luck getting VC and PCL-CVS to access sourceforge
cvs.

I'm running Win98, I have Cygwin OpenSSH and CVS and I'm running a
prebuilt copy of CVS Emacs.

I have also put the following into my .emacs

(if (not (getenv "CVS_RSH"))
    (setenv "CVS_RSH" "ssh"))

I have no problem acessing SF from the cygwin bash shell, but no luck
from emacs.  If I run `cvs-update' it just sits there.  No error
message or anything.

Emacs is in d:/emacs (because of disk limits), and cygwin is in
c:/cygwin.

If anyone is running pcl-cvs and ssh on Windows, what am I missing?
I have a feeling that emacs can't find ssh, but I can't figure out
the variable to set to tell it where to find it.

Anybody?

b/

--
Brad Collins
Chenla Labs
Bangkok, Thailand

Re: pcl-cvs and ssh on Windows

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Brad Collins <brad@studiojungle.net>
> Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 13:23:39 +0700
> 
> I've been having no luck getting VC and PCL-CVS to access sourceforge
> cvs.
> 
> I'm running Win98, I have Cygwin OpenSSH and CVS and I'm running a
> prebuilt copy of CVS Emacs.

That's your problem, right there: you are mixing Cygwin console apps
with a non-Cygwin build of Emacs.  There are known incompatibilities
between these two families of Windows programs wrt redirection of
console I/O, and, as you can imagine, Emacs depends on the ability to
catch console I/O in its front-end to CVS.

Solution: find a native Windows (i.e., non-Cygwin) build of CVS and a
native implementation of SSH.  You should have no problems locating
the former on the net (sorry, no URL, but the CVS home page has
pointers to a couple of such ports); as for the latter, I recommend
PuTTY (and then point CVS_RSH to plink.exe that comes with PuTTY).

Alternatively, install (or build) a Cygwin version of Emacs, and then
use the Cygwin CVS and OpenSSH that you have now.