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rcs - GNU Revision Control System ChangeLog

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HOWTO

# GNU RCS 5.7
# ===========
# Prerequisites:
# diffutils

cd
test -f installed/rcs-5.7.tar.gz && mv installed/rcs-5.7.tar.gz .
test ! -f rcs-5.7.tar.gz &&
wget http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/rcs/rcs-5.7.tar.gz

# Verify tarball w/ md5sum:
echo "4c8e896f2d2446fa593c6f1601a4fb75 rcs-5.7.tar.gz" | md5sum -c

mkdir -p -m 0700 src
cd src
find -type d -maxdepth 1 -name "rcs-*" -exec rm -r {} \;
tar xzvf ~/rcs-5.7.tar.gz
cd rcs-5.7

# Patch it to shut up something in conf.sh (which is run by make)
wget http://englanders.cc/pub/linux/patches/rcs-5.7.patch &&
patch -p0 < ./rcs-5.7.patch && rm rcs-5.7.patch

./configure --prefix=/usr
make

# Become root to install it
su
removepkg rcs
make install

# Become yourself again
exit

cd
mkdir -p -m 0700 installed
rm -f installed/rcs-*.tar.*
mv rcs-5.7.tar.gz installed/