Requirements
============

You need:

   - cvs >= 1.9
   - Qt  >= 3.0 (>= 3.1 recommend)
   - qmake (part of Qt)
   - Unix or WinXX


You do _not_ need:

   root privilege
   

Installation
============

   If you use a precompiled binary package, go directly to step 6.


   1. Untar the tarball and go into the toplevel directory of the
      LinCVS tarball.

        $ tar -zxvf lincvs-1.x.x*.tgz
        $ cd lincvs-1.x.x*


   2. Set the QTDIR environment variable.

        Bourne shell:

        $ export QTDIR=path_to_your_qt

        C shell:

        $ setenv QTDIR path_to_your_qt


      Hint for FreeBSD:

      If you have installed the official Qt package or port you must 
      set QTDIR to /usr/X11R6.


      Hint for SuSE:

      Under SuSE the usual QTDIR is /usr/lib/qt3.


   3. Create Makefile for your system using qmake.

	If you want support for FAM, read the FAM howto in the doc subdir!

        $ qmake -o Makefile lincvs.pro

	This will create the LinCVS project file, and at the same time
	start the ssh-askpass build in LinCVS/contrib/ssh-askpass/
      
      If the shell can't find qmake you have to add the path to qmake
      to your PATH.

        $ export PATH=$QTDIR/bin:$PATH

        or

        $ setenv PATH $QTDIR/bin:$PATH


   4. Make it.

	$ make

	If you get linker errors (undefined reference) take a look 
	into the trouble shooting section.
       
        And optional (sometimes the install rule generated by qmake 
        contains the strip command, sometimes not)
        
        $ strip lincvs   


   5. Install it into the AppDir.

        $ make install

      "Make install" copies all needed files into a subdirectory called
      LinCVS inside the toplevel directory.

      Important hint:

      On some systems, "make install" fails, see troubleshooting 
      section for more informations.


   6. Now you can move this subdirectory whereever you want (we follow
      the "AppDir" concept, for more informations see
      http://rox.sourceforge.net).
      Move the startscript template "lincvs" (you can find it in 
      the LinCVS subdirectory) to a directory of your PATH. Adapt 
      the exec call and the path accordingly to the path where you 
      have moved the LinCVS subdirectory. Follow the comments in 
      this startscript.
      If you use ROX, you can skip this step.

        $ mv path_to_your_LinCVS_subdir/lincvs /usr/local/bin/lincvs
	$ $EDITOR /usr/local/bin/lincvs
       

   7. Run it.

      Type lincvs.
      If you use ROX, [double]click the LinCVS appdir.



Trouble Shooting
================

    On some system, you get the followoing error:

	qmake: No such file or directory

    this is because some distributors don't put the qmake into path.
    In this case, search for qmake, add it to your path and try again.

    
    On some systems (for instance RedHat) the following error
    occurs:
    
       exception handling disabled, use -fexceptions to enable
       
    This is a bug of qmake or Qt caused by your distribution.
    Please add -fexceptions to the CXXFLAGS statement of the
    Makefile and run make again.


    On some systems (for instance SuSE) the install rules in the 
    generated Makefile are wrong because a bug in Qt. 
    "Make install" try to strip directories.
    As workaround open the Makefile and remove all lines containing 
    strip rules for directories (or remove all lines containing strip if 
    you are unsure)... updating of your Qt may help or not.


    On some systems (for instance Debian) the Qt is compiled with 
    QWindowsStyle as plugin. In this case you will get a lot of linker 
    errors (undefined references). Open config/config.h and enable the
    define QT_NO_STYLE_WINDOWS:
    
    old:
    // #define QT_NO_STYLE_WINDOWS
     
    new:
    #define QT_NO_STYLE_WINDOWS
    
    Run make again.
    
    --------------------

    If qmake fails on building ssh-askpass, just comment the last view
    lines in the lincvs.pro file after:

    # on unix, compile ssh-askpass tool in contrib/ssh-askpass/
    # and install into LinCVS/Tools

    with a #, as the lines before mentioned are, and repeat step 3 and
    further.

    In this case you will need to compile ssh-askpass manually (This is
    only required on some systems that don't provide a ssh-askpass tool).
    To manually compile do:
    &> cd LinCVS/contrib/ssh-askpass
    &> qmake ssh-askpass.pro
    &> make
    and copy the ssh-askpass binary to the location of your request.

    In case of running into problems, please contact the mailing list at:

    http://www.iapp.de/~trogisch/lincvs/index.php?order=1,7&lan=en
