CVS Information

CVS is a way of storing and tracking changes in the code between releases. It always has the latest code and bug fixes. Here's step-by-step instructions for how to check out and build rackview from CVS. Before you begin, make sure you have the required dependencies installed. You also need, of course, cvs installed (version 1.11).

Run the following commands in a directory that you have write access to (such as your home directory):

cvs -d ':pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/rackview' login 

(Just hit enter for the password)

cvs -z3 -d ':pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/rackview' checkout rackview

You should see it listing all the source files.

Once you've checked the code out of CVS, run the following commands:

cd rackview 
perl Makefile.PL

If you see any errors here, you haven't installed everything you need. autogen.sh will also run ./configure for you once it's created, if it's created successfully.

make
make test
make install 

Refer to the INSTALL file for further details.

When there are changes to rackview's code, you'll want to update your local copy. You don't have to remove the entire directory that you checked out and redo the whole thing; instead, from inside the directory, run:

cvs update -Pd

The update will merge all the changes into the current files, and then you can rebuildas appropriate.