Question

Hi,

Installation:

• Cygwin 1.5.24-2
• RCS 5.7

Problem:

• RCS is failing due to wrong filename passed from TWiki

From Apache error log:

 c:/cygwin/bin/rcs "-i" "-t-none" "-ko" "c:\\apache\\htdocs\\twiki\\data\\Main\\TestJens.txt" failed

Same problem applies for fgrep and egrep.

When I'm running the rcs command from a shell with the filename /twiki/data/Main/TestJens.txt RCS sounds to be happy.

RCSLite is working

Where and how to make the modification to %FILENAME ?

Very best regards,

Jens

Environment

-- JensKjelsbak - 30 May 2007

Answer

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I also had the Windows backslashes in the pathnames and RCS was failing. After trying for some time to get ActiveState Perl to work, I gave up after running into this problem with RCS. I then just switched back to cygwin perl which does not have this problem. I think the file to modify though is lib/TWiki/Store/RcsWrap.pm or RcsFile.pm. I had to put some debug into the Wrap file to see the backslashes in the first place. I hope this helps!

-- JeffDickson - 31 May 2007

Personally I always either use cygwin perl with cygwin RCS, or RcsLite with ActiveState perl. Mixing them just causes the sort of grief you describe.

-- CrawfordCurrie - 02 Jun 2007