Re: [TuxKart-devel] CYGWIN FIXES

[Steve B. <sjb...@ai...>]

Norman Vine wrote:

> Also were the images and sound files commited to CVS
> as binary files ?

Not explicitly - I don't think I need to do that on
'poper' OS's.
 
> If not they should be recomitted with the -b flag.

I tried that and I got a very strange set of error
messages - so I did a 'man cvs' and searched for '-b' to check
out exactly what it meant and there are several occurrances of it:

1) As a 'main' option:
   "-b bindir: Use  bindir as the directory where RCS programs
    are located (CVS 1.9 and older).  Overrides the setting
    of  the  RCSBIN  environment  variable.  This value
    should be specified as an absolute pathname."

2) As a sub-option of 'tag', 'rtag':
   "The -b option  makes  the  tag  a  ``branch''  tag,
    allowing concurrent, isolated development.  This is
    most useful for creating a patch  to  a  previously
    released software distribution."

3) As a sub-option of 'history':
   "-b str: Show data back to a record containing the string
    str in either the module name, the file name, or
    the repository path."

4) As a sub-option of 'import':
   "Use  `-b  branch'  to  specify a first-level branch
    other than `1.1.1'."

None of those appear to force things to be binary files.

Weird.

> I had to use the ones from the tarball as the CVS
> versions appeared to be corrupted on Win32.

Hmmm - I immediately did a CVS download after I made
the repository, did a 'diff' against my existing files
and removed my originals once I was confident that they
were correctly in CVS.  So it MUST be some kind of binary/ascii
thing.

Do you have any other ideas what the appropriate option might be.
 
> I know --
> the text - binary file distinction is a Windows feature
> that programers working on real operating systems
> should not have to concern themselves with :-)

Grrr!

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