RE: Problem with checking in binary files

[Aaron S. Hawley]

It appears your `make' failed because you didn't compile under the
credentials of a non-superuser user.  I suppose you could run someting
like: `su -c make ron'

More information on compiling RCS and problems with conf.h is in the file
INSTALL.RCS which comes with the source distribution.
/a

On Fri, 21 Jan 2005, Washum, Ron # PHX wrote:

> Aaron
>
> Yes we did try 'rcs -kb' on the file but that did not resolve the problem.
>
> Thinking about your suggestion regarding the compile perhaps using the SUN
> version of diff, I have taken the following steps.
>
> 1. In /usr/bin, I have moves diff and diff3 out of the way and replaced them
> with links to diff and diff3 in /usr/local/bin.
>
> 2. I've downloadad a compilable version of rcs which I am now trying to
> install.
>
> I ran into a problem, however, during the make. Please see below.
>
> address@hidden # echo $LD_LIBRARY_PATH
> /usr/include/sys:/opt/app/oracle/product/9.2/lib:/opt/app/oracle/product/9.2
> /lib64:/opt/xml/xml4c-src3_3_0/lib:/opt/SUNWspro/lib:/opt/EMCpower/lib:/opt/
> VRTSvcs/EMC/lib
> address@hidden # make clean
> cd man && make clean
> rm -f core core.* *.core
> cd src && make clean
> rm -f a.* RCS/a.*
> rm -f *.o
> rm -f ci co ident merge  rcs rcsclean rcsdiff rcsmerge rlog
> rm -f conf.err core core.* *.core
> rm -f confdefs* conftest* core core.* *.core
> address@hidden # ./configure
> loading cache ./config.cache
> checking diff basename... (cached) diff
> checking for diff... (cached) /usr/bin/diff
> checking diff success status... (cached) 0
> checking diff failure status... (cached) 1
> checking diff trouble status... (cached) 2
> checking diff options for RCS... (cached) -n
> checking diff -L... (cached) no
> checking diff3 -m... (cached) no
> checking diff3 library program... (cached) /usr/lib/diff3prog
> checking for ed... (cached) /usr/bin/ed
> checking for sendmail... (cached) /usr/lib/sendmail
> checking for pic... no
> checking for gpic... no
> checking for pic... no
> checking for pic... no
> checking for gcc... (cached) gcc
> checking whether we are using GNU C... (cached) yes
> checking whether gcc accepts -g... (cached) yes
> checking for a BSD compatible install... (cached) ./install-sh -c
> checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... (cached) yes
> creating ./config.status
> creating Makefile
> creating man/Makefile
> creating src/Makefile
> address@hidden # make
> cd man && make all
> cd src && make all
> rm -f a.*
> ALL_CFLAGS=' -Dhas_conf_h  -I. -I. -g -O' \
> CC='gcc' \
> COMPAT2='0' \
> DIFF3='/usr/lib/diff3prog' DIFF3_BIN='0' \
> DIFF='/usr/bin/diff' DIFFFLAGS='-n' DIFF_L='0' \
> DIFF_SUCCESS='0' \
> DIFF_FAILURE='1' \
> DIFF_TROUBLE='2' \
> ED='/usr/bin/ed' \
> LDFLAGS='' LIBS='' \
> RCSPREFIX='/usr/local/bin/' \
> SENDMAIL='"/usr/lib/sendmail"' \
> /bin/sh -x ./conf.sh 3>&1 >a.h 2>conf.err
> ./conf.sh: testing permissions ...
> ./conf.sh: This command should not be run with superuser permissions.
> *** Error code 1
> make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `conf.h'
> Current working directory /tmp/rcs-5.7/src
> *** Error code 1
> make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `all'