[viewvc-users] ViewVC CVS diff displays No changes instead of diff

Greetings,

I have googled the world, but I did not find any resolution to my problem, therefore I ask for your help.
I have 2 viewVC installations (v1_1_13), 1 for SVN and 1 for CVS. The SVN one works like a dream but the CVS one is refusing the show me files diffs, it states "No Changes" on diffs, although manual run of the rcsdiff shows the real differencies. I have GNU diff, I have compiled the RCS 5.7 and 5.8 with GNU diff, I tried both RCS versions, the result is the same. The manual run of:
rcsdiff -r1.1 -r1.5 .classpath,v gives me

===================================================================
RCS file: /usr/local/cvsdev/b2erp/SR_B2E_EJB/.classpath,v
retrieving revision 1.1
retrieving revision 1.5
diff -r1.1 -r1.5
28d27
<     <classpathentry exported="true" kind="lib" path="/SR_B2E_EAR/commons-collections-2.1.1.jar"/>
39,40d37
<     <classpathentry exported="true" kind="lib" path="/SR_B2E_EAR/sr-hcf-v2-2.3.0.jar"/>
<     <classpathentry exported="true" kind="lib" path="/SR_B2E_EAR/sr-hcf-v3-3.6.1.01.jar"/>
42,55c39,40
<     <classpathentry exported="true" kind="lib" path="/SR_B2E_EAR/sr-sje-alg-corba-stubs-3.0.1.jar"/>
<     <classpathentry exported="true" kind="lib" path="/SR_B2E_EAR/sr-sje-algbase-3.0.5.02.jar"/>
<     <classpathentry exported="true" kind="lib" path="/SR_B2E_EAR/sr-sje-algbaseservices-ejb-client-1.0.1.jar"/>
<     <classpathentry exported="true" kind="lib" path="/SR_B2E_EAR/sr-sje-commons-1.0.5.02.jar"/>
<     <classpathentry exported="true" kind="lib" path="/SR_B2E_EAR/sr-sje-commonssecurity-1.0.1.jar"/>
<     <classpathentry exported="true" kind="lib" path="/SR_B2E_EAR/sr-sje-corba-wrapper-ejb-1.0.5.jar"/>
<     <classpathentry exported="true" kind="lib" path="/SR_B2E_EAR/sr-sje-cts-client-2.1.0.jar"/>
<     <classpathentry exported="true" kind="lib" path="/SR_B2E_EAR/sr-sje-mail-client-2.0.2.jar"/>
<     <classpathentry exported="true" kind="lib" path="/SR_B2E_EAR/sr-sje-scheduler-1.1.1.jar"/>
<     <classpathentry exported="true" kind="lib" path="/SR_B2E_EAR/sr-sje-sic-genericserviceactivator-ejb-1.0.1.jar"/>
<     <classpathentry exported="true" kind="lib" path="/SR_B2E_EAR/sr-sje-sic-genericservicefactory-1.0.3.01.jar"/>
<     <classpathentry exported="true" kind="lib" path="/SR_B2E_EAR/sr-sje-sic-gsf-gsr-ejb-client-1.0.2.jar"/>
<     <classpathentry exported="true" kind="lib" path="/SR_B2E_EAR/sr-sje-sic-lr-access-1.0.5.jar"/>
<     <classpathentry exported="true" kind="lib" path="/SR_B2E_EAR/xa1-1.0.1.p.2.jar"/>
---
>     <classpathentry exported="true" kind="lib"
>         path="/SR_B2E_EAR/sr-sje-scheduler-1.1.1.jar" sourcepath="/SR_B2E_EAR/sr-sje-scheduler-1.1.1.jar"/>
58a44,60
>     <classpathentry exported="true" kind="lib" path="/SR_B2E_EAR/commons-collections-3.1.jar"/>
>     <classpathentry exported="true" kind="lib" path="/SR_B2E_EAR/sr-hcf-v2-2.3.1.jar"/>
>     <classpathentry exported="true" kind="lib" path="/SR_B2E_EAR/sr-hcf-v3-3.6.3.jar"/>
>     <classpathentry exported="true" kind="lib" path="/SR_B2E_EAR/sr-sje-alg-corba-stubs-3.1.0.jar"/>
>     <classpathentry exported="true" kind="lib" path="/SR_B2E_EAR/sr-sje-algbase-3.0.6.01.jar"/>
>     <classpathentry exported="true" kind="lib" path="/SR_B2E_EAR/sr-sje-algbaseservices-ejb-client-1.0.8.jar"/>
>     <classpathentry exported="true" kind="lib" path="/SR_B2E_EAR/sr-sje-commons-1.0.6.jar"/>
>     <classpathentry exported="true" kind="lib" path="/SR_B2E_EAR/sr-sje-commonssecurity-1.0.1.jar"/>
>     <classpathentry exported="true" kind="lib" path="/SR_B2E_EAR/sr-sje-corba-wrapper-ejb-1.1.1.jar"/>
>     <classpathentry exported="true" kind="lib" path="/SR_B2E_EAR/sr-sje-corba-wrapper-ejb-client-1.1.1.jar"/>
>     <classpathentry exported="true" kind="lib" path="/SR_B2E_EAR/sr-sje-ctsshared-1.0.1.jar"/>
>     <classpathentry exported="true" kind="lib" path="/SR_B2E_EAR/sr-sje-mailshared-1.0.1.jar"/>
>     <classpathentry exported="true" kind="lib" path="/SR_B2E_EAR/sr-sje-sic-genericserviceactivator-ejb-1.0.2.jar"/>
>     <classpathentry exported="true" kind="lib" path="/SR_B2E_EAR/sr-sje-sic-genericservicefactory-1.0.4.jar"/>
>     <classpathentry exported="true" kind="lib" path="/SR_B2E_EAR/sr-sje-sic-gsf-gsr-ejb-client-1.0.6.jar"/>
>     <classpathentry exported="true" kind="lib" path="/SR_B2E_EAR/sr-sje-sic-lr-access-1.0.6.jar"/>
>     <classpathentry exported="true" kind="lib" path="/SR_B2E_EAR/sr-xa1-1.0.4.p.0.jar"/>

the same 2 revision comparison gives me "No changes" in ViewVC. I also tried to hack in a "-c" parameter into the rcsdiff to show the changes with + and -, but it did not help. 
I tried to put print statements (and later file write ones) to the lib/vclib/__init__.py where the "def _diff_args(type, options)" is to print out the rcsdiff arguments to be able to compare it to the command line ones, but those printouts were ignored and no output was written (Disclaimer: I am not a Python programmer, hence I could not figure out what are the args passed to rcsdiff.
Could you please give me any clue what the problem might be or any help how to put debug print statements into the library files?

Many thanks in advance for your help,

Kind Regards,

Zoltan

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