From: Jouk Jansen [joukj@hrem.stm.tudelft.nl]
Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2001 4:37 AM
To: Info-VAX@Mvb.Saic.Com
Subject: Re: ANNOUNCING: Patch file for CVS v1.11 for OpenVMS.

Robert Alan Byer wrote:
> 
> After finding an older version of CVS on the OpenFreeware CD I wondered if
> there was a newer version of CVS out that would work under OpenVMS.
> 
> After checking...
> 
>         ftp://ftp.cyclic.com/pub
> 
> I saw that CVS v1.11 was availalbe and it appeared to have OpenVMS support.
> 
> After I unpacked the package I noticed that the OpenVMS files hadn't been
> updated in quite a few versions and it wouldn't compile correctly under DEC
> C v6.0 under OpenVMS v7.2
> 
> After spending a day with it I created a new compile scrip and patched a few
> things and it appears to be working.
> 
> So I've put together a patch kit for CVS v1.11 so you can compile it and run
> it on under DEC C and OpenVMS.
>

I compiled it with Compaq C V6.2-006 on OpenVMS Alpha V7.2-1. But when 
checking out it stops at a certain moment saying:
cvs [checkout aborted]: cannot rename file pdf_base.ps_new_ to
pdf_base.ps: no such device or address

the file  pdf_base.ps_new_ is existing. If you clear the directory
and start cvs from the same process its stops one file earlier, if 
you clean the directory and start over with cvs started from a different
process it stops at pdf_base.ps_new_ again. pdf_base.ps_new_ is of
course the actual file in the repository I tried to checkout, However
whatever repository I try to checkout I always get the above behaviour.

The same strange thing I encounter with the pre-compiled version on the
freeware CD.

What can be the problem? I already checked quota (especially open file
quota) but they are all sufficient at the time it breaks.

                   Jouk