[p4] cvs2p4 - Newbie question

[Ildefonzo Arocha]

Hello,

I am in the process of testing Perforce for our company.  I have downloaded
the evaluation version for Linux 2.4 kernel.

One critical factor on the decision over Perforce is its possibility to
convert our existing CVS repository, I am testing with cvs2p4 with no luck
:(

When I try to run test/runtest I get the following error:

===== Lines referenced:
OneDB
Release_4_02_05
Release_4_03_01
Release_5_01_01
branch_Globopharm
cvs
shemp
warp
runtest> diff /iar/cvs2p4/cvs2p4-3.0b6/test/lines.good /iar/cvs2p4/cvs2p4-
3.0b6/test_conv_dir/lines
2,8c2,7
< cabesa
< chupa
< curly
< curly2
< curly3
< ha
< larry
---
> OneDB
> Release_4_02_05
> Release_4_03_01
> Release_5_01_01
> branch_Globopharm
> cvs
10,12c9
< vtag
< xxx
< yyy
---
> warp
runtest: *** "diff /iar/cvs2p4/cvs2p4-3.0b6/test/lines.good
/iar/cvs2p4/cvs2p4-3.0b6/test_conv_dir/lines" exited with signal 0 status 1
runtest: *** genmetadata bad results
runtest> rm -f /iar/cvs2p4/cvs2p4-3.0b6/test/,v
runtest> rm -f /iar/cvs2p4/cvs2p4-3.0b6/test/xy,v
runtest> rm -f /iar/cvs2p4/cvs2p4-3.0b6/test/baÿÔdab,v

Whatever that means???!! I find no documentation about what this error is
about, or how to get around it.

I ignored the error and tried a conversion, then I get the following error:

===== Lines referenced:
OneDB
Release_4_02_05
Release_4_03_01
Release_5_01_01
branch_Globopharm
cvs
shemp
warp
========== genchanges
Mon Dez 18 13:11:02 CET 2006
========== dochanges
Mon Dez 18 13:11:08 CET 2006
dochanges: cannot recognize p4d version in:

*** dochanges  FAILED

Not been a Perl programmer I was able to track down where the error is
printed out to "p4d_vers" in "lib/util.pl"

sub p4d_vers
{
  my ($P4D) = @_;
  my $v = `$P4D -V`;
  my ($y, $r) = ($v =~ m/\nRev. P4D\/[^\/]+\/(\d+)\.(\d+).*\//);

  if (! $v || ! $r)
    { print "$Myname: cannot recognize p4d version in:\n$v\n"; exit 1; }

  return ($y, $r);
}

p4d and p4 are in my $PATH, I am working as root, and pfd -V outputs:

Perforce - The Fast Software Configuration Management System.
Copyright 1995-2006 Perforce Software.  All rights reserved.
Portions copyright 1991-2005 Compuware Corporation.
Rev. P4D/LINUX24X86/2006.1/109255 (2006/10/17).
License: none

So something is not getting correctly parsed, don't know where, and don't
know if I should even modify this file.

Can anyone help me here?  I have one week for testing a whole bunch of stuff
and convincing the management why Perforce is a must.

I am no Linux expert and have no experience with Perforce, so please be
gentle with the answers!

Red Hat Linux, Kernel 2.4
Perforce 2006.1

Thanks in advance,
Ildefonzo