I'm currently stuck on a shared web host running FreeBSD 9.1 without any C compilers available. I'm still able to run the latest version of Fossil from [0] with some quirks (see bottom if you're interested in details).
[0] http://pkg.freebsd.org/ I have created an extra CGI script to start playing with Fossil 2.1, and decided to offload the CGI options from the former CGI script to a separate control file (named `fossil.config`), i.e. from: #!./fossil directory: ../.data/fossil ... to: #!./fossil cgi fossil.config Like this, the two CGI scripts for Fossil 1.x and Fossil 2.1 can share the same CGI server setup. However, I noticed that my custom `fossil.config` file was not loaded with the above CGI script, but only this version worked: #!./fossil fossil.config The CGI script name is appended as an extra argument to the shebang command line, and Fossil refuses to read the control file if the "CGI" command is followed by more than one argument [1]. The fallback is to use `g.argv[1]` in this case. [1] http://fossil-scm.org/index.html/artifact/5105d4bc1b?ln=1834 If I may I would like to suggest that the control file passed to the "CGI" command be read even if there's additional command line arguments following, so it works the same as if the "CGI" command was omitted (and CGI mode was triggered by the GATEWAY_INTERFACE environment variable). I feel that explicitly passing the "CGI" command followed by the control file (as documented in the Fossil help) is better for later reference and script maintenance than relying on the "Fossil thinks it's reading its own CGI script but I tricked it" fallback. ---- To get Fossil 2.1 running on my FreeBSD 9.1 shared host, I downloaded Fossil 2.1 and the OpenSSL libraries for FreeBSD 11 from [0], and grabbed a copy of libc.so.7 from a FreeBSD 11 ISO image (for `strchrnul`). These files were saved in a separate ./fossil2 directory, and the symlinks libcrypto.so.9 -> libcrypto.so.7 and libssl.so.9 -> libssl.so.7 created. Now Fossil 2.1 works fine with the following one-line CGI script: #!/usr/bin/env -S LD_LIBRARY_PATH=fossil2 fossil2/fossil fossil.config I'm always amazed about the simplicity and modest system requirements of Fossil, thanks for this masterpiece! --Florian _______________________________________________ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
