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Re: Interix (was RE: [Mm]akefile in)
- To: "Cygwin-Xfree at Sourceware dot Cygnus. Com" <cygwin-xfree at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
- Subject: Re: Interix (was RE: [Mm]akefile in)
- From: Chris Faylor <cgf at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2000 13:25:42 -0400
- References: <309F4FC4705DC844987051A517E9E39B16EF42@red-pt-02.redmond.corp.microsoft.com> <MHEMLLEBIBOHNHCIECPAGEHFCDAA.ssiddiqi@inspirepharm.com>
On Wed, Jun 21, 2000 at 01:03:25PM -0400, Suhaib Siddiqi wrote:
>
>
>> 1) WRT CVS: (I may have the M and m versions of makefile backwards in
>> this, but it doesn't really matter). When I run cvs update of the
>> whole binutils tree, when it gets to that point it gives the message
>> "makefile is in the way, please move it" (or something like that).
>> That's because it's already installed Makefile, and in a case-independent
>> file system, makefile and Makefile are the same. It's strictly a
>> CVS issue, when working on a case-independent file system. (This
>> has nothing to do with building it.)
>
>I will run a CVS remove command. I did run CVS remove last week when first
>time
>someone reported this problem. I may have made a mistake and they were not
>removed.
Maybe you already know this, Suhaib, but once you've done a remove, you
have to do a "cvs commit" to cause the operation to actually occur.
If you didn't do that, then that's why the files are still there.
cgf