Re: Trouble with modules file syntax

On 2012/06/11 20:50, Larry Jones wrote:
> Lord Bitnerd of Pentium writes:
>>
>> I have library source, which lives in current directory "XXlib" in the
>> repository (as in "cvs checkout XXlib").  I've developed it with some test code
>> that lives at
>>
>>     DevCode/PrimeSieve/SieveCalc
>>
>> and I want the XXlib module to show up (as an alias) at
>>
>>     DevCode/PrimeSieve/XXlib
>>
>> In other words, when I "cvs checkout DevCode", I want to see SieveCalc and XXlib
>> modules under DevCode/PrimeSieve.
>
> That's a tricky thing to do, it's much simpler if you add the library at
> the top level instead (i.e., DevCode/XXlib).  That's just:
>
> 	DevCode DevCode &XXlib
>
> If you really want it at a lower level, you have to define a special
> module for it that specifies the directory to check out into:
>
> 	DevCodeXXlib -d PrimeSieve/XXlib XXlib
> 	DevCode DevCode &DevCodeXXlib

Ah bless you - that is exactly what I want.  I tried several variations on this 
but I couldn't figure out the "-d" syntax.

Thanks very much!

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