Re: cannot open file Utils.pm for comparing: No such file or directory

[Philip Lijnzaad]

Philip Lijnzaad <address@hidden> wrote in message news:<address@hidden>...
> Dear all, 
> 
> I have a strange problem: I can cvs update and commit and everything without
> a problem, but when doing a cvs diff, I get:
> 
> cvs [server aborted]: cannot open file Utils.pm for comparing: No such file 
> or directory
> 
> The CVSROOT is ':ext:address@hidden:/ebi/cvs' and my CVS_RSH is ssh. 
> 
> What can cause this kind of behavior ? It looks a bit like the repository
> side can't create a temporary file to 'diff' against. 

Turns out that I had ''diff -kk'' in my ~/.cvsrc. Out-commenting this
made
the problem go away. Incidentally, this problem only occured on
Solaris and TrueUnix, not SGI and Linux. The version I used it with
was 1.10 halibut.