[18924] in Athena Bugs
Re: sun4 8.4.22: rcs under athena solaris
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Tue Apr 24 12:38:58 2001
Message-Id: <200104241638.MAA05909@egyptian-gods.MIT.EDU>
To: "t. belton" <tbelton@MIT.EDU>
cc: Angie Kelic <sly@MIT.EDU>, bugs@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 24 Apr 2001 12:31:04 EDT."
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Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 12:38:51 -0400
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
I think the secret sauce is in the "diff" command. gnu diff has the
necessary features to enable support for binaries in RCS, but the
native Solaris diff does not.
What we should do is put gnu diff into the release and make sure RCS
is compiled against it. Given the present level of development
staffing and the state of the release, I don't think this will happen
for 9.0, but I will leave the bug report open until such a time as we
do the right thing.
(I believe, but have not checked, that the gnu locker has a version of
RCS which works with binary files on all platforms.)
