Build(Aegis) Build(Aegis) NAME aegis - project change supervisor Copyright (C) 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001 Peter Miller; All rights reserved. The aegis program is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License. See the LICENSE section, below, for more details. aegis (ee.j.iz) n., a protection, a defence. SPACE REQUIREMENTS You will need up to 15MB to unpack and build the aegis program. (This is the worst case seen so far, most systems have binaries about 60% as big as this, 10MB is more typical.) Your mileage may vary. SITE CONFIGURATION The aegis package is configured using the configure shell script included in this distribution. The configure shell script attempts to guess correct values for various system-dependent variables used during compilation, and creates the Makefile and common/config.h files. It also creates a shell script config.status that you can run in the future to recreate the current configuration. Before You Start Before you start configuring, it is worth reading the OTHER USEFUL SOFTWARE section, below. The configure script checks for the internationalization library and functions. If your system does not have them, it is worth fetching and installing GNU Gettext before you run the configure script. Make sure that the msgfmt command from GNU Gettext appears earlier in your command search PATH than the existing system ones, if any (this is very important for SunOS and Solaris). You must do the GNU gettext install before running the configure script, or the error messages, even for English speakers, will be terse and uninformative. Remember to use the GNU gettext configure --with-gnu-gettext option if your system has native gettext tools. The configure script checks for the compression library and functions. If your system does not have them, it is worth fetching and installing GNU zlib compression library before you run the configure script. (See http://www.gzip.org/zlib/ for download.) This is essential, becaise Aegis will not build. without it. (Note: this is not the same thing as zlibc which does something completely different.) The configure script checks for the regular expression library and functions. If your system does not have them, it is worth fetching and installing GNU rx compression library before you run the configure script. (Note: test 81 will fail if the POSIX regular expression functions are not available.) Running Configure Normally, you just cd to the directory containing aegis' source code and type % ./configure ...lots of output... % If you're using csh on an old version of System V, you might need to type % sh configure ...lots of output... % instead to prevent csh from trying to execute configure itself. Running configure takes a minute or two. While it is running, it prints some messages that tell what it is doing. If you don't want to see the messages, run configure with its standard output redirected to /dev/null; for example, % ./configure --quiet % There is a known problem with GCC 2.8.3 and HP/UX. You will need to set CFLAGS = -O in the generated Makefile. (The configure script sets it to CFLAGS = -O2.) This is because the code optimization breaks the fingerprints. If test 32 fails (see below) this is probably the reason. By default, configure will arrange for the make install command to install the aegis package's files in /usr/local/bin, /usr/local/com/aegis, /usr/local/lib/aegis, /usr/local/man and /usr/local/share/aegis. There are a number of options which allow you to control the placement of these files. --prefix=PATH This specifies the path prefix to be used in the installation. Defaults to /usr/local unless otherwise specified. --exec-prefix=PATH You can specify separate installation prefixes for architecture-specific files and architecture- independent files. Defaults to ${prefix} unless otherwise specified. --bindir=PATH This directory contains executable programs. On a network, this directory may be shared between machines with identical hardware and operating systems; it may be mounted read-only. Defaults to ${exec_prefix}/bin unless otherwise specified. --datadir=PATH This directory contains installed data, such as the documentation, reports and shell scripts distributed with Aegis. On a network, this directory may be shared between all machines; it may be mounted read-only. Defaults to ${prefix}/share/aegis unless otherwise specified. An ``aegis'' directory will be appended if there is none in the specified path. --libdir=PATH This directory contains installed data, such as the error message catalogues. On a network, this directory may be shared between machines with identical hardware and operating systems; it may be mounted read-only. Defaults to ${exec_prefix}/lib/aegis unless otherwise specified. An ``aegis'' directory will be appended if there is none in the specified path. --mandir=PATH This directory contains the on-line manual entries. On a network, this directory may be shared between all machines; it may be mounted read-only. Defaults to ${prefix}/man unless otherwise specified. --sharedstatedir=PATH This directory contains share state information, such as the Aegis lock file, and information on the location of the various Aegis projects. On a network, this directory may be shared between all machines; it MUST be mounted READ-WRITE. Defaults to ${prefix}/com/aegis unless otherwise specified. An ``aegis'' directory will be appended if there is none in the specified path. configure ignores any other arguments that you give it. On systems that require unusual options for compilation or linking that the aegis package's configure script does not know about, you can give configure initial values for variables by setting them in the environment. In Bourne- compatible shells, you can do that on the command line like this: $ CC='gcc -traditional' LIBS=-lposix ./configure ...lots of output... $ Here are the make variables that you might want to override with environment variables when running configure. Variable: CC C compiler program. The default is cc. Variable: INSTALL Program to use to install files. The default is install if you have it, cp otherwise. Variable: LIBS Libraries to link with, in the form -lfoo -lbar. The configure script will append to this, rather than replace it. If you need to do unusual things to compile the package, the author encourages you to figure out how configure could check whether to do them, and mail diffs or instructions to the author so that they can be included in the next release. Common Problem It is very common that other packages, such as gettext, rx and zlib are installed using /usr/local as the prefix. However, the configure script can't work this out, even when it, too, is using /usr/local as the prefix. To cope with this, you need to say $ CFLAGS=-I/usr/local/include LDFLAGS=-L/usr/local/lib ./configure ...lots of output... $ when running configure. Substitute the appropriate prefix if you are using something other than /usr/local. Watch the output... it should now find your installed packages correctly. PRIVILEGES There are a number of items in the generated Makefile and common/config.h file which affect the way aegis works. If they are altered too far, aegis will not be able to function correctly. AEGIS_MIN_UID This specifies the minimum unprivileged uid on your system. UIDs less than this may not own projects, or play any other role in an aegis project. The default value is 100. AEGIS_MIN_GID This specifies the minimum unprivileged GID on your system. GIDs less than this may not own projects, or play any other role in an aegis project. The default value is 10. AEGIS_USER_UID This is the owner of files used by aegis to record pointers to your projects. It is not used to own projects (i.e. it must be less than AEGIS_MIN_UID). If possible, the configure script tries to work out what value was used previously, but you must specify the --prefix option correctly for this to work. Because of operating system inconsistencies, this is specified numerically so that aegis will work across NFS. The default value is 3. AEGIS_USER_GID This is the group of files used by aegis to record pointers to your projects. It is not used as the group for projects (i.e. it must be less than AEGIS_MIN_GID). If possible, the configure script tries to work out what value was used previously, but you must specify the --prefix option correctly for this to work. Because of operating system inconsistencies, this is specified numerically so that aegis will work across NFS. The default value is 3. DEFAULT_UMASK When aegis runs commands for you, or creates files or directories for you, it will use the defined project umask. This is a project attribute, and may be altered using the aepa(1) command. The DEFAULT_UMASK is the umask initially given to all new projects created by the aenpr(1) command. The default value of DEFAULT_UMASK is 026. See the comments in the common/config.h file for an explanation of the alternatives. It is required that aegis run set-uid-root for all of its functionality to be available. It is NOT possible to create an "aegis" account and make aegis run set-uid- aegis. This is because aegis does things as various different user IDs, sometimes as many as 3 in the one command. This allows aegis to use UNIX security rather than inventing its own, and also allows aegis to work across NFS. To be able to do these things, aegis must be set-uid-root. Appendix D of the Aegis User Guide explains why aegis must run set-uid-root; please read it if you have concerns. Remember Your Settings It is important to remember your configuration settings. This way, it will be a simple matter when it comes time to upgrade Aegis. BUILDING AEGIS All you should need to do is use the % make ...lots of output... % command and wait. When this finishes you should see a directory called bin containing several files: aegis, aereport, aefind, aefp, find_sizes and fmtgen. aegis The aegis program is a project change supervisor. aefp The aefp program may be used to ``fingerprint'' files. It is used to test Aegis (see the testing section, below) but it isn't installed. aereport The aereport program is used to query Aegis' database. aefind The aefind program is used to find files. find_sizes The find_sizes program is a utility used to build the aegis package; it is not intended for general use and should not be installed. fmtgen The fmtgen program is a utility used to build the aegis package; it is not intended for general use and should not be installed. You can remove the program binaries and object files from the source directory by using the % make clean ...lots of output... % command. To remove all of the above files, and also remove the Makefile and common/config.h and config.status files, use the % make distclean ...lots of output... % command. The file aux/configure.in is used to create configure by a GNU program called autoconf. You only need to know this if you want to regenerate configure using a newer version of autoconf. Upgrading When upgrading from one release to a newer one, it is important that all of the machines on your network are running the same release of Aegis. This minimises the possibility of database incompatibilities. In general, Aegis is backwards compatible with earlier releases, but not forwards compatible in the face of new capabilities. OTHER USEFUL SOFTWARE Before describing how to test aegis, you may need to grab some other free software, because the tests require it in some cases, and because it is generally useful in others. cook This is a dependency maintenance tool (DMT). An example of a well-known DMT is make(1), however this old faithful is mostly not sufficiently capable to meet the demands placed on it by the aegis program, but cook certainly is. The cook package is written by the same author as aegis. The cook package is necessary if test 11 is to be meaningful. It is also used in the documentation. The cook program may be found at the same archive site as the aegis program. The cook program is available under the terms of the GNU General Public License. GNU diff If the diff(1) utility supplied by your flavor of unix does not have the -c option, you will need GNU diff for aepatch(1) to work (and the aepatch(1) tests to pass). Context differences are also helpful for reviewing changes. GNU diff is essential for Solaris, because the Solaris diff has bugs that Aegis' tests uncover. RCS This is a source control package, and is available from any of the GNU archives. The tests use RCS as the history mechanism, so it is necessary to have RCS for most of the tests to pass. (It is best to compile and install RCS after GNU diff. This is because the RCS configuration hard-codes the pathnames of the GNU diff utilities it needs into the RCS executables.) GNU Gettext Many systems do not yet supply the gettext(3) function. Aegis uses this function to internationalize its error messages. If your system does not have this function, you should fetch and install GNU Gettext before running the configure script. If you do not, Aegis will still work, but the error messages will be rather terse, even for English speakers. (You will be able to tell if your system has the internationalization library and functions, because the configure script will report finding -lintl and (CWlibintl.h and msgfmt in its running commentary.) Please note that the GNU Gettext implementation is likely to be superior to the one supplied with your system, if any. Remember to use the GNU gettext configure --with-gnu- gettext option if your system has native gettext tools. Please note: if you install GNU gettext package into /usr/local (for example) you must ensure that the Aegis ./configure script is told to also look in /usr/local/include for include files (CFLAGS), and /usr/local/lib for library files (LDFLAGS). Otherwise the not been installed. GNU Groff This GNU software replaces the documentation tools which (sometimes) come with UNIX. They produce superior error messages, and support a wider range of functionality and fonts. The Aegis User Guide was prepared with GNU Groff. You need GNU Groff 1.14 or later. bison This GNU software is a replacement for yacc(1). Some systems have very sick yaccs, and bison may be necessary if your system include files disagree strongly with your system's yacc. The generated Makefile will use bison if you have it. fhist This software, available under the terms of the GNU General Public License, is a set of file history and comparison utilities. It was originally written by David I. Bell, and is based on the minimal difference algorithm by Eugene W. Myers. This copy is enhanced and maintained by the same author as Aegis, and may be found at the same archive site, in the same directory. rx This library provides POSIX regular expressions, for systems which don't have them. (Note: test 81 will fail if the POSIX regular expression functions are not available.) zlib This library provides access to the GNU Zip (de)compression algorithm(s). It is essential to have this installed before you build Aegis. The home page may be found at http://www.gzip.org/zlib/ if you need to download it. Note: this is not the same as zlibc which is Linux specific. tkdiff This program shows the difference between two text files, nicely highlighted in color. This is used by the tkaer and aecomp scripts (and probably others as they are contributed). By John M. Klassa, http://www.ede.com/free/tkdiff The tests also depend on the presence of a number of common UNIX programs, including but not limited to: cc, cmp, diff, ed, find, make, the RCS package, etc. Depending on your version of UNIX, some or all of these programs may be in optional packages. (This is especially true of Linux.) You need to ensure that these programs are correctly installed before you run the tests. TESTING AEGIS The Aegis program comes with a test suite. To run this test suite, use the command % make sure ...lots of output... Passed All Tests % The tests take a minute or two each, with a few very fast, and a couple very slow, but it varies greatly depending on your CPU. Known Problems The tests assume that the RCS commands "ci", "co", "rlog" and "rcs" are somewhere in the command search PATH. The test/00/t0011a.sh file assumes the cook(1) command by the author is somewhere in the command search path. This test reproduces the example used in Chapter 3 of the User Guide. If the cook(1) command is not available, this test gives a pass result without testing anything. If you are using HPUX and GCC, test 32 fails if you use -O2. You need to edit the Makefile to only optimize at -O, delete the objects and rebuild. If you are using Solaris' diff, test 133 will report ``no result''. You need to install GNU diff, because the Solaris diff has bugs. If you are using Sun's tmpfs file system as your /tmp directory, the tests will fail. This is because the tmpfs file system does not support file locking. Set the AEGIS_TMP environment variable to somewhere else before running the tests. Something like % setenv AEGIS_TMP /usr/tmp % is usually sufficient if you are using C shell, or $ AEGIS_TMP=/usr/tmp $ export AEGIS_TMP $ if you are using Bourne shell. Remember, this must be done before running the tests. If the tests fail due to errors complaining of "user too privileged" you will need to adjust the AEGIS_MIN_UID defined in the common/config.h file. Similarly for "group too privileged", although this is rarer. This error message will also occur if you run the tests as root: the tests must be run as a mortal each time. If the POSIX regular expression functions are not available, test 81 will fail. The GNU rx library provides these. Installing it and re-configuring and re- building Aegis will solve the problem. TESTING SET-UID-ROOT If the Aegis program is not set-uid-root then it runs in "test" mode which gives you some confidence that Aegis is working before being tested again when it is set-uid- root. Two pass testing like this means that you need not trust your system to a set-uid-root program which is not known to work. You will need to do a little of the install, to create the directory which will contain Aegis' lock file. # make install-libdir mkdir /usr/local/lib/aegis chown 3 /usr/local/lib/aegis chgrp 3 /usr/local/lib/aegis chmod 0755 /usr/local/lib/aegis mkdir /usr/local/com/aegis chown 3 /usr/local/com/aegis chgrp 3 /usr/local/com/aegis chmod 0755 /usr/local/com/aegis chown root bin/aegis chmod 4755 bin/aegis # As you can see, the previous command also changed Aegis to be set-uid-root. Once this has been done, Aegis should be tested again, in the same manner as before. % make sure ...lots of output... Passed All Tests % You should test Aegis as a mortal in both passes, rather than as root, to be sure the set-uid-root functionality is working correctly. It is required that Aegis run set-uid-root for all of its functionality to be available. It is NOT possible to create an "aegis" account and make Aegis run set-uid- aegis. This is because Aegis does things as various different user IDs, sometimes as many as 3 in the one command. This allows Aegis to use UNIX security rather than inventing its own, and also allows Aegis to work across NFS. To be able to do these things, Aegis must be set-uid-root. Appendix D of the Aegis User Guide explains why Aegis must run set-uid-root; please read it if you have concerns. INSTALLING AEGIS As explained in the SITE CONFIGURATION section, above, the Aegis package is installed under the /usr/local tree by default. Use the --prefix=PATH option to configure if you want some other path. All that is required to install the Aegis package is to use the % make install ...lots of output... % command. Control of the directories used may be found in the first few lines of the Makefile file if you want to bypass the configure script. The above procedure assumes that the soelim(1) command is somewhere in the command search PATH. The soelim(1) command is available as part of the GNU Groff package, mentioned below in the PRINTED MANUALS section. If you don't have it, but you do have the cook package, then a link from roffpp to soelim will also work. The above procedure also assumes that the $(prefix)/man/man1 and $(prefix)/man/man5 directories already exist. If they do not, you will need to mkdir them manually. USER CONFIGURATION The Aegis command is assumed to be in a generally accessible place, otherwise users will need to add the relevant directory to their PATH. Users should add source /usr/local/lib/aegis/cshrc to the end of their .cshrc file for the recommended aliases. (This may be in a different place, if you specified a --prefix option.) There is also a profile for users of the Bourne shell (it assumes you have a version of the Bourne shell which has functions). Users should add . /usr/local/share/aegis/profile to the end of their .profile file for the recommended aliases. (This profile assumes that users are using a Bourne shell which understands functions.) The /usr/local/com/aegis/state file contains pointers to "system" projects. Users may add their own project pointers (to their own projects) by putting a search path into the AEGIS_PATH environment variable. The system part is always automatically appended by Aegis. The default, already set by the /usr/local/lib/aegis/cshrc file, is $HOME/lib/aegis. Do not create this directory, Aegis is finicky and wants to do this itself. Where projects reside is completely flexible, be they system projects or user projects. They are not kept under the /usr/local/com/aegis directory, this directory only contains pointers. If you have a Web server, and the aegis.cgi was installed, you can set its AEGIS_PATH environment variable, if you want it to be able to see more projects than just the global projects. You do this by creating a /usr/local/lib/aegis.cgi.conf file (there isn't one, by default) and setting the AEGIS_PATH environment variable in it. This is a fragment of Bourne shell script, not just the name. PRINTED MANUALS This distribution contains the sources to all of the documentation for Aegis, however the simplest way to get the documentation is by anonymous FTP; PostScript files of the User Guide and Reference Manual are available from the FTP sites listed in the README file. The Reference Manual contains the README and BUILDING files, as well as all of the section 1 and section 5 manual pages. The Reference Manual is about 200 pages long. The User Guide contains information about how to use Aegis, including a fully worked example. The User Guide is about 100 pages long. TIME SYNCHRONIZATION The Aegis program uses time stamps to remember whether various events have happened and when. If you are using Aegis in a networked environment, typically a server and data-less workstations, you need to make absolutely sure that all of the machines agree about the time. If possible, use the time daemon. Otherwise, use rdate(8) via cron(8) every hour or less. GETTING HELP If you need assistance with Aegis, please do not hesitate to contact the author at Peter Miller Any and all feedback is welcome. When reporting problems, please include the version number given by the % aegis -version aegis version .C001 ... % command. Please run this command to get the exact number, do not send the text of this example. Runtime Checking In the common/main.h file, there is a define of DEBUG in comments. If the comments are removed, extensive debugging is turned on. This causes some performance loss, but performs much run-time checking and adds the -TRAce command line option. When the -TRAce command line option is followed by one or more file names, it turns on execution traces in those source files. It is usually best to place this on the end of the command line so that names of the files to be traced are not confused with other file names or strings on the command line. Problem Reports If you send email to the author, please include the following information: 1. The type of UNIX The author will need to know the brand and version of UNIX you are using, or if it is not UNIX but something else. The output of "uname -sr" is usually sufficient (but not all systems have it). 2. The Version Number In any information you send, please include the version number reported in the common/patchlevel.h file, or `aegis -vers` if you can get it to compile. 3. The Archive Site When and where you obtained this version of Aegis. If you tell me nothing else, tell me this (and, hopefully, why you did nothing else). 4. Unpacking Did you have problems unpacking Aegis? This probably isn't a problem with the .tar.Z distribution, but you could have obtained a shar format copy. 5. Building Did you have problems building Aegis? This could have been the instructions included, it could have been the configure script, it could have been the Makefile, or anything else. 6. Testing, Non-Set-Uid Did you have problems with the tests? You could have had problems running them, or some of them could have failed. If some tests fail but not others, please let me know which ones failed, and include the fact that Aegis was not set-uid-root at the time. The -k option to make can be useful if some tests fail but not others. 7. Testing, Set-Uid-Root Did you have problems with the tests when Aegis was set-uid-root? You could have had problems running them, or some of them could have failed. If some tests fail but not others, please let me know which ones failed, and include the fact that Aegis was set-uid-root at the time. 8. Installation Did you have problems installing Aegis? This could have been the instructions, or anything else. At this point it would probably be a very good idea to print out the manual entries and read them carefully. You will also want to print a copy of the User Guide; if you don't gave groff, there should be a PostScript copy at the archive site. It is a known flaw that the User Guide is incomplete, it is something the author is working on "at this moment". 9. The Example Project After reading the User Guide, it is often useful to manually run through the example in chapter 3. You will need to do more than one change, hopefully several; the first change is not representative of the system. Did you manually do the example? Did you find flaws in the User Guide or manual entries? 10. Using Aegis Did you have problems using Aegis? This is a whole can of worms. If possible, include a shell script similar to the tests which accompany Aegis, which reproduces the bug. Exit code 1 on failure (bug), exit code 0 on success (for when bug is fixed). 11. The Source Code Did you read the code? Did you write some code? If you read the code and found problems, fixed them, or extended Aegis, these contributions are most welcome. I reserve the right to modify or reject such contributions. The above list is inclusive, not exclusive. Any and all feedback is greatly appreciated, as is the effort and interest required to produce it. LICENSE The Aegis program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. The Aegis program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. It should be in the LICENSE file included in this distribution. AUTHOR Peter Miller E-Mail: millerp@canb.auug.org.au /\/\* WWW: http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~millerp/ WINDOWS-NT It is possible to build Aegis for Windows-NT. I have only done this using the Cygnus freeware CygWin32 system, though it may be possible with other Unix porting layers also. Caveat This document only describes a single user port of Aegis to Windows NT. Aegis depends on the underlying security provided by the operating system (rather than re-invent yet another security mechanism). However, in order to do this, Aegis uses the POSIX seteuid(2) system call, which has no direct equivalent on Windows NT. This makes porting difficult. Single user ports are possible (e.g. using Cygwin (http://www.cygwin.com/), but are not usually what folks want. Compounding this is the fact that many sites want to develop their software for both Unix and Windows NT simultaneously. This means that the security of the repository needs to be guaranteed to be handled in the same way by both operating systems, otherwise one can act as a ``back door'' into the repository. Many sites do not have the same users and permissions (sourced from the same network register of users) on both Unix and Windows NT, making the mapping almost impossible even if the security models did actually correspond. Most sites using Aegis and Windows NT together do so by running Aegis on the Unix systems, but building and testing on the NT systems. The work areas and repository are accessed via Samba or NFS. The Source You need to FTP the Cygwin system from RedHat. It can be found at http://www.cygwin.com/ and then follow the links. The original version used was B20.1, but more recently 1.1.7 has been used. It is absolutely essential to run the mkpasswd and mkgroup commands, otherwise Aegis will give fatal errors about unknown users and groups. See the Cygwin README for instructions. Mounting Things You need to mount a directory onto /tmp, or lots of things, and especially bash(1), don't work. If you are in a heavily networked environment, like me, you need to know that using a networked drive for /tmp just doesn't work. I have no idea why. Use mount C:/temp /tmp instead. (Or some other local drive.) Just a tip for all of you who, like me, know Unix much better than you know Windows-NT: the left-hand mount argument needs to be specified with a drive letter (e.g. C:) rather than with a double slash (e.g. not //C) unless its Windows-NT name starts with \\. You need to follow the install instructions about /bin/sh, otherwise shell scripts that start with #!/bin/sh don't work, among other things. This includes the ./configure script, and the scripts it writes (e.g. config.status). You will want to mount your various network drives onto the same places they appear on your Unix hosts. This way you don't need to learn two names for all your files. Mounts persist across Cygwin sessions. They are stored in a registry file somewhere. You will not need to do all this every time! Too Much Administrator If you have administrator privilege on your Windows NT box, you need to get rid of it. (Have a second admin account instead.) This is because Windows NT will make the files belong to the wrong user for files on some partitions, like /tmp. (This took me days to work out!) This confuses both Aegis and RCS. If you get weird ``Permission denied'' errors from amazingly unlikely causes, this is probably why. Before You Start There are several pieces of software you need before you can build Aegis on Cygwin. I'm going to keep mentioning ``your local GNU mirror''. You can find GNU at http://www.gnu.org, however you are better off using a local mirror, and these are scattered around the globe. Follow the ``mirrors'' link on their front page to find your closest mirror. Also, it's often a good idea to configure these packages with the ``--with-gnu-gettext'' option to their ./configure commands. Do not use WinZip to unpack the tarball. It has a nasty habit of turning all of the newlines into CRLFs. This will confuse lots of utilities, especially GNU Groff. Use the ``tar xzf aegis-.C001.tar.gz'' command from within Cygwin. Make sure the Cygwin you are using has GNU Groff 1.15 or later (use a ``groff -v'' command). Grab and install the latest from your local GNU mirror, if it isn't. util-linux You need to get GNU rx, but to make it work you have to find a tsort command, so that GNU rx's ./configure script works. Try the latest copy of system/misc/util-linux-?.?.tar.gz from the metalab.unc.edu Linux archive (or a mirror). Simply build and install misc-utils/tsort.c by hand. GNU rx Once you have tsort installed, you will be able to get GNU rx configured. Get a copy from your local GNU mirror. zlib You need to grab a copy of zlib; the same source as works for Unix will work for Cygwin. It will install as a static library. GNU diffutils You need GNU diffults, because when you come to configure GNU RCS (next) it would otherwise complain about a stupid diff and a missing diff3 command. The install-sh script is broken, so you'll need to do the final step in the install by hand. GNU RCS All of Aegis' tests assume RCS is present. Also, you are going to need something for a history tool. The install-sh script is broken, so you'll need to do the final step in the install by hand. Configure The configure and build step should be the same as for Unix, as described above. All the problems I encountered were to do with getting the mounts just right. (But expect it to be dog slow compared to Linux or FreeBSD on the same box.) Sharutils You need the uudecode command for several of the tests, and this may be found in the GNU Sharutils package. You can get a copy from your local GNU mirror. The configure step is almost the same as for Unix. I know you are itching to get typing, but read through to the install section before you configure anything. bash$ ./configure ...lots of output... bash$ Build The build step is exactly the same as for Unix, and you shouldn't notice any difference... bash$ make bash$ Test The tests are run in the same way as the Unix tests, but you don't need to run the set-uid-root variants, because no such thing exists under Windows NT. bash$ make sure ...lots of output... Passed All Tests bash$ Unfortunately, it isn't that simple. There are a number of things you will see go wrong... +o Several tests fail because ed isn't there. +o Several tests fail because ci (RCS 5.7) dumps core much too often for my liking. +o A couple of tests fail because they don't expect the ``.exe'' extension on executable files. +o A couple of tests (notably, the aedist tests) fail because of the CRLF vs NL dichotomy. This means that the expected results don't match, not that it isn't working. Despite all the bad news, the vast majority of tests pass, and the others have good excuses. Install Installing the software works as usual, though you need to make some choices right at the start (I told you to read this all the way through first). If you want to use the ``/usr/local'' prefix (or any other install prefix) you mount it right at the start. For anything other than the ``/usr/local'' default prefix, you also needed to give a ``--prefix=blahblah'' argument to the configure script, right at the start. bash$ make install ...lots of output... bash$ Reference Manual Aegis 1