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RCS binaries built on FreeBSD (the rcs "port")


From: Knight, Dave
Subject: RCS binaries built on FreeBSD (the rcs "port")
Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2018 20:58:02 -0400

The port build mechanism built the RCS binaries and installed the (by default, I suppose) in /usr/bin.  I built them to copy to a FreeNAS system which does not include RCS or the ability to build "ports" (no tools).

For a couple reasons, I installed those binaries in /usr/local/bin on the FreeNAS system.  Mostly they worked OK, but rcsdiff, for example, did not, emitting errors like: "/usr/bin/co not found".  Examination of the rcsdiff binary revealed a hard-coded path to /usr/bin/co which, obviously, will fail if the binaries are installed in /usr/local/bin!  Apparently the co and ci binaries also contain hard-coded paths for things in /usr/bin/ but did not seem to use them in my tests.

RCS binaries on my other Linux systems do not contain hard-coded paths and can be moved to any directory enumerated in the PATH env variable with no ill effect.



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