Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: "nigel gray" Subject: Re: a few questions about cvs Date: Fri, 4 Jul 2003 17:27:42 -0700 Lines: 54 Message-ID: References: X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4927.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4927.1200 Thankyou for your post Igor. Yes I think your answer rings true as I have been advised to use the cvs as it is more up to date as people are contributing all the time and chages are being made about twice a week. Nigel "Igor Pechtchanski" wrote in message news:Pine.GSO.4.44.0307041015570.17919-100000@slinky.cs.nyu.edu... > On Fri, 4 Jul 2003, nigel gray wrote: > > > I have downloaded and installed a tar file called min-0.0.4. > > However there are problems with the > > make test command. > > > > Wth cvs min-0.0.5 is in beta is available. > > since all the > > neccessary files have been uploaded > > from the cvs site might it be possible > > with bugs fix in the beta version to > > make and make test again. and if so > > are the commands of make and test make > > the same from a cvs repositry. > > > > thanks > > Nigel > > Nigel, > > A local checkout of a cvs repository is no different than an extracted > source tarball (except for the "CVS" subdirectories where cvs stores its > administrative information). IOW, you should be able to just checkout the > source from the repository (using a "cvs -d REPOSITORY checkout MODULE"), > adapt it to your system (either by running "configure", if the project > uses it, or by editing some header, which may not be necessary for a > really portable project), and then run "make" and "make test". > Igor > -- > http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ > |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu > ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor@watson.ibm.com > |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. > '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! > > "I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route > to the bathroom is a major career booster." -- Patrick Naughton > > -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/