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RE: Cannot build latest CVS setup
- From: "Dave Korn" <dave dot korn at artimi dot com>
- To: <cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Wed, 25 May 2005 10:20:31 +0100
- Subject: RE: Cannot build latest CVS setup
----Original Message----
>From: Igor Pechtchanski
>Sent: 24 May 2005 15:30
> On Tue, 24 May 2005, Dave Korn wrote:
>
>> ----Original Message----
>>> From: Igor Pechtchanski
>>> Sent: 24 May 2005 04:15
>>
>>> On Tue, 24 May 2005, Max Bowsher wrote:
>>>
>>>> Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
>>
>>>>> cvs update: move away setup/cfgaux/.direxists; it is in the way C
>>>>> setup/cfgaux/.direxists $ # that last one looks kinda weird, but
>>>>> probably unrelated
>>>>
>>>> Umm, bizarre!
>>>
>>> CVS got confused. A fresh checkout doesn't have this problem.
>>
>> It probably will do when you update. It's a consequence of giving cvs
>> the -dP flags.
>
> Nope, it doesn't.
Nope, really, it does, let me demonstrate:
dk@mace /usr/build/apps/setup> cvs update
? configure.bad
? install.cc.latest
? install.cc.new
? install.cc.newer
? mirrors.txt
? res.rc.latest
? res.rc.new
M autoload.c
M msg.cc
dk@mace /usr/build/apps/setup> cvs update -dP
? configure.bad
? install.cc.latest
? install.cc.new
? install.cc.newer
? mirrors.txt
? res.rc.latest
? res.rc.new
M autoload.c
M msg.cc
cvs update: move away cfgaux/.direxists; it is in the way
C cfgaux/.direxists
dk@mace /usr/build/apps/setup>
> I can't confirm it now, since I've blown away the old
> checkout, but I believe CVS simply lost the entry for the cfgaux directory
> from the CVS/Entries file. This caused it to believe that there was
> *another* cfgaux directory *in* CVS, and that my local copy was in the
> way.
Nope, it'll happen every time, and the reason it'll happen is not because
CVS has lost the record for it. Check this:
dk@mace /usr/build/apps/setup> cat .cvsignore
aclocal.m4
autom4te.cache
cfgaux
configure
configure.lineno
Makefile.in
dk@mace /usr/build/apps/setup>
I feel you display remarkable aplomb at the notion that CVS might just
randomly lose entries in vital metadata files! I would become rather
concerned about its reliability if I knew it did that!
cheers,
DaveK
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