Re: [Sccs-devel] v5.09: installation bug?

[(Joerg S. <sc...@sc...>]

Hi,

since you mention SCCS-5.09, it may be that you use the separate distribution 
that is outdated (2 years old).

The most recent version is always inside the schilytools package.

It e.g. uses a different diff program (the fastest known) and this results in 
30% better performance. Other new features in the version from schilytools:

-	Smaller diffs for longer files, since bdiff is no longer used and
	the diff thus is no longer segmented.

-	SCCSv6 history files now fully support libe based diffs for binary
	files.

-	If SCCSv6 history files are selected, no UU-encode is used anymore
	for binary data.

-	Better support for the new mode that is neded for the upcomming
	v6 in project mode.

Christopher Chen <chr...@ca...> wrote:

> This is just a FYI, not a complaint.  I'm glad someone is keeping it together.
> 
> I used gmake, and did a 'INS_BASE=/usr/local/'.  As a result, I got:
> 
> > > which sccs
> > /usr/local/bin/sccs

Please note the text from README.compile:

        Note that INS_BASE=/usr/local needs to be specified for every operation 
        that compiles or links programs, as the path may be stored inside the 
        binaries. 

Unlike some programs like the Sun/Oracle compiler collection, that dynamically 
determine their installation directory, sccs has the strings compiled in.

As a result, you need to specify a non-standard installation directory (hello 
anno 1980 for /usr/local) while compiling the code and not only while 
installing. 

Jörg

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