Re: Problem with RCS finding diff

[sharon Stanfill]

Oh, you are right - however, I suppose it is possible that the /usr/bin/diff
is the gnu diff - it does sometimes end up there as well. Easy to figure
out in any case.  Better might be just to download the gnu diff into
the right spot.
At 02:42 PM 2/21/2003 +0000, Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng wrote:
> On Fri, 21 Feb 2003, sharon Stanfill wrote:
>
> > Could you just make a softlink from /usr/bin/diff to /usr/local/bin/diff?
> > That's probably what I would do.
>
> This would be insufficient.  RCS needs GNU diff, because of the
> extra options that some native diffs don't support.  If Gnu diff is
> installed, its default location for most Unix flavours is
> /usr/local/bin.  This will solve the problem without creating new
> ones like "option -u not recognised" etc.
>
> >
> > At 09:18 AM 2/21/2003 -0500, Justin DelVecchio wrote:
>         [...]
> > >3.  I go to 'ci' the file and get the following message:
> > >
> > >/usr/local/bin/diff: not found
> > >ci:RCS/hello.txt,v: diff failed
> > >ci aborted
> > >
>         [...]
>         Hugh
>
>
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Sharon Stanfill
Group 31 (BMD/Systems Analysis)
Lincoln Laboratory
Lexington , MA