Re: rcs-5.8-1 on HP-UX 11.31

[Paul Ackersviller]

On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 10:03:22AM +0200, Thien-Thi Nguyen wrote:
> ...i think your build tree does not correspond to 5.8.1, for which
> src/Makefile.am makes no mention of sub.TEMPLATE.  All that stuff
> is part of branch ???master???, which differs (and Real Soon Now, will
> be removed/rebased) from branch ???a???, whose tip is tagged ???5.8.1???.
> (The new branch organization is pending resolution of some other
> admin matters, so this is a temporary confusion.)  In the meantime,
> could you please try a fresh clone and bootstrap?  Something like:
> 
>   # -*- sh -*-
>   git clone git://git.sv.gnu.org/rcs.git
>   cd rcs
>   git checkout -b all-ok origin/a
>   git branch -D master
> 
> should leave you on local branch ???all-ok??? (which tracks upstream
> repo branch ???a???) w/o any branch ???master??? to muck things up.

Looks like you must be right, no more strangeness after that.

One other thing I think I may have been doing earlier as well was mixing
in various GNU tools that the system happens to have.  I've done an
additional build with a plain vanilla PATH=/usr/bin, and that works too.