Re: Process only sections of a file? (newbie)

Eric Blake wrote:
> On 09/20/2010 07:20 AM, Gary wrote:
>> I just followed the instructions at http://www.gnu.org/software/m4/ to
>> get the source via cvs. I got the response "cvs checkout: warning:
>> unrecognized response `fatal: Invalid revision range
>> 46a02bda6d4472e440345498c909609c305b8888..HEAD' from cvs
>> server".
>
> What's wrong with using git instead, since that is the preferred
> repository?

I don't know anything about git. Come on, I'm already learning m4 to
write my code, and now you want me to learn about git in order to build
m4 *laughs*

For example I don't know how to find out what branches exist (no, I'm
not asking you to tell me) so I am stuck with the instructions on the
webpage which tell me to use branch 1.6 but I've no idea if that's
current or not, so I decided to just get cvs' HEAD.

So anyway, that's why I tried CVS.

> It's been ages since I've tried the CVS mirror, so I'm not
> entirely surprised if it is not working any more

Then the reference to it on the website would be better removed IMO. I
mean, if someone tells you that you can do A or B, it's reasonable for
you to expect that A and B both work.

>> Where's the file "INSTALL"?
>
> Look in HACKING instead for directions for building from VCS
> files. INSTALL won't exist, because it is a git symlink

Okay, thanks. I've just started my bootstrap and will see what come out
the other end :) Hopefully something that will run the example that Gary
V posted a link to :D