CVS suckage

Garrett Cooper yanefbsd at gmail.com
Sat Feb 21 14:16:25 PST 2009


On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 2:12 PM, Garrett Cooper <yanefbsd at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi guys,
>    Now I realize that cvs is an old RCS method and all, and is
> incredibly buggy, but I cannot for the life of me get the version in
> the source tree nor the version in ports to work for me when syncing
> (fails to connect), checking out (fails to connect), or check in
> (segfaults) either for the FreeBSD repository or outside repositories.
>    What I'm trying to do is trace down the dependent libraries and
> rebuild them, just in case they're corrupt / nonfunctional, but I
> can't determine where gcrypt lives within the source tree:
> [root at orangebox /usr/src]# ldd `which cvs`
> /usr/bin/cvs:
>        libintl.so.8 => /usr/local/lib/libintl.so.8 (0x28130000)
>        libiconv.so.3 => /usr/local/lib/libiconv.so.3 (0x28139000)
>        libcrypt.so.4 => /lib/libcrypt.so.4 (0x2822e000)
>        libc.so.7 => /lib/libc.so.7 (0x28247000)
>    Could someone provide me a pointer on this?
> Thanks,
> -Garrett

    I just stared at the ldd output and it appears that 2/4 of the
libraries are being picked up from ports. Isn't there a policy for
LDFLAGS / CFLAGS in base?
Thanks,
-Garrett


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