Re: rcsdiff failed.

[sharon Stanfill]

I'll guess that you have the wrong diff installed. Start perhaps
by doing a man diff on /usr/local/bin/diff to see if -L is a legal
option for it. As I recall, the Solaris diff is unacceptable - you
need the gnu diff.

Sharon Stanfill
At 10:55 AM 10/24/2002 +1000, Nancy Truong wrote:
> HI All,
>
> I have installed RCS 5.7 for Sun Sparc Solaris 8. When I do rcsdiff, the
> got the following error:
>
> # rcsdiff syd.conf
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: RCS/syd.conf,v
> retrieving revision 1.1
> diff -r1.1 syd.conf
> /usr/local/bin/diff: illegal option -- L
> usage: diff [-bitw] [-c | -e | -f | -h | -n] file1 file2
>        diff [-bitw] [-C number] file1 file2
>        diff [-bitw] [-D string] file1 file2
>        diff [-bitw] [-c | -e | -f | -h | -n] [-l] [-r] [-s] [-S name]
> directory1
>  directory2
> rcsdiff: syd.conf: diff failed
>
> Could you please assist me in solving this problem.
>
> Thanks in advance....
>
> Regards
> Nancy