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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.apps:186 comp.os.386bsd.bugs:610 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!emory!ogicse!netnews.nwnet.net!news.u.washington.edu!ns1.nodak.edu!plains.NoDak.edu!ortmann From: ortmann@plains.NoDak.edu (Daniel Ortmann) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.apps,comp.os.386bsd.bugs Subject: Re: cvs-1.3 is locking up Message-ID: <C68L67.ovM@ns1.nodak.edu> Date: 29 Apr 93 08:34:55 GMT Article-I.D.: ns1.C68L67.ovM References: <1993Apr27.232720.16472@melb.bull.oz.au> <C673rG.4xv@bcstec.ca.boeing.com> <1993Apr28.195758.6312@coe.montana.edu> Sender: usenet@ns1.nodak.edu (Usenet login) Organization: North Dakota Higher Education Computing Network Lines: 29 Nntp-Posting-Host: plains.nodak.edu In article <1993Apr28.195758.6312@coe.montana.edu> nate@cs.montana.edu (Nate Williams) writes: )In article <C673rG.4xv@bcstec.ca.boeing.com> dean@deanstoy.wa.com writes: )>I also fixed this loop bug (and its really in the system's sigismember )>macro) but there is more wrong with it than this. There is a fixed )>version of cvs and an updated version of rcs available by anonymous )>ftp from bsd.coe.montana.edu. ) )FYI - This is a fixed version that Chris D. made available to me. ) )> I had one problem with the updated with the updated rcs. The version of )> expr that came with 386bsd does not grok parenthesis. I worked around )> it by changing a line in conf.sh that looked something like (I am )> working from memory, the files are at home): ) )>I am now shopping for a fixed eval. Anyone know where I can find one? ) )Make sure you use 'ash' as your /bin/sh (NOT bash!), which has a builtin )eval that works. :-) HHhmmm.... You mean "expr", right? I have ash as /bin/sh and always have. When we spoke earlier I thought that you were referring to running my login shell as ash. Well, that blew up also. I made the suggested change to the "expr" and everything is just ducky. -- Daniel "un?X" Ortmann (talmidim) NDSU Electrical Engineering ortmann@plains.nodak.edu shalom Fargo, North Dakota