Re: Re: CVS Build Failing

"Mike A. Harris" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.xfree86.expert
Organization Red Hat Inc.
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Mon, 9 Dec 2002 [email protected] wrote:

>> >Aargh. I'm still having trouble getting CVS to build because of the 
>> >new XFixes stuff. Here's my host.def
>> [SNIP]
>> >
>> >I get this error even after removing build/xmakefile and re-executing
>> >"make World". build is a shadow directory created using lndir. Could
>> >someone kindly hit me with a clue bat? Thanks.
>> 
>> At a glance it looks like your CVS checkout is not clean.  I'd
>> recommend doing a fresh checkout and try again.
>
>Hmm. I wonder how that happened? A fresh checkout was next on my list,
>but I was trying to save bandwidth and avoid that. In any event, a 
>fresh checkout seemed to solve the problem. Thanks, Andrew and Mike.

Using cvsup instead of straight cvs is a better way of saving 
bandwidth.  You might want to consider giving it a whirl too.
It's a very useful tool.

Take care,
TTYL


-- 
Mike A. Harris     ftp://people.redhat.com/mharris
OS Systems Engineer - XFree86 maintainer - Red Hat
lmpx.com only provides a reader for public news (NNTP) servers. It is not affiliated with the servers or forums shown here and is not responsible for the content of articles, which is written by their respective authors.