Re: MacOS X cvs updates

[Bill Northcott]

Hi alex

> Since I am not a good cvs user, could you send me the commands I have
> to type to use cvs on swarm-hacker?

In a terminal:
1  CD to the directory which you want to contain the Swarm code directory.
2  This only needs to be done once on each computer.  The results are 
stored in ~/.cvspass
type:
cvs -d:pserver:address@hidden:/cvsroot/swarm login

You should receive a password prompt.  Just hit the return key

3. Then type
cvs -z3 -d:pserver:address@hidden:/cvsroot/swarm co swarm

Cvs should then download a complete code tree.

It will not be the same as the code you are used to from the tarballs. 
There are 'CVS' directories everywhere.  Do not touch these. There are 
also no configure files.  These are created by the autogen.sh script.  So 
cd into the swarm directory and type:
./autogen.sh

Then you can proceed with configure as usual.  Configure should run 
without problem.  I used:
../configure \
--prefix=/some path \
--with-tcldir=/usr/local/lib \
--without-jdkdir \
--with-hdf5dir=/usr/local

When it groks.  Try comparing your modified files with the cvs code:
cvs -c diff yourfile cvsfile

Merge the two (in your tree of cvs code) and then diff against the 
repository code:
cvs -z3 diff mergedfile

Please send me the diffs then I can see what you are doing and merge them 
into the cvs if appropriate.

At any time in the future you can update the code tree by typing:
cvs -z3 update

in the head directory. 

If you open the ProjectBuilder project, you should be able to use the CVS 
facilities in that.  Perhaps the most useful is the ability to compare 
your code with the current or any previous version in the CVS.

> Or, if you could send me the patches of hdf5, and of Swarm code.

hdf5 1.5.42 needs no patches.

> Or if you upload the various material on a web site, I'll take back
> and then I'll insert in a web page.

There is little point duplicating web pages.  I have uploaded a binary 
tarball of BLT2.4z.

> Cvs is a good thing when the program is ready, for further release,
> not for "not stable release code", in my opinion.
> regards.

Release code for OS X should be binaries.  If you are interested in source 
modification of any sort, you should use cvs.

I would really like to get a copy of the source code you are using, or at 
least some patches.

Bill Northcott

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