Mounting a PVCS Directory
Before you can mount a PVCS filesystem, you need to install PVCS on your system.
PVCS is not provided with the IDE.
To mount a PVCS directory:
- Choose Versioning
Mount
Version Control
Generic
VCS from the main window to open the New Generic VCS wizard.
- In the Version Control System Profile combo box, select the PVCS configuration
for your platform or for the platform that most closely matches yours.
- In the Project Database field, specify the location of your project database.
The project database is the central location of all projects, subprojects,
and versioned files.
You can type the database location or click the Select button to search
for all project databases. The dialog box contains three choices:
- Database Location Path. Lets you type or browse to the project
database location.
- Select a Database Used By PVCS GUI. Displays all of databases registered
with your PVCS GUI program.
- Look for Databases in. Searches any directory for all project databases.
You can enter a directory path or browse to a directory.
Your project database must be mounted locally on your system. For Windows
users, the project database computer must be mapped to your computer. For
UNIX systems, the project database computer must be mounted as a UNIX filesystem.
- If you want to work with an individual project, type its name in the Project
Name field. You can also click the Select button to browse to the project.
You must mount all projects at their package root in order to compile them
correctly.
- In the Workfiles Location field, enter the location of your local copy of
the versioned files.
- If you want to configure advanced options or environment variables, click
the Next button to view the Advanced and Environment panes of the wizard.
- Click Finish to close the New Generic VCS wizard and mount the filesystem.
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