Re: sim checkout broken

[Hans-Peter Nilsson <hp at bitrange dot com>]

On Wed, 26 Jun 2013, Tom Tromey wrote:

> H-P> cvs checkout: ignoring module src/gdb/version.in
>
> H-P> Can the action causing that Emptydir please be reverted?
> H-P> And/or explained, maybe with a line indicating "better
> H-P> switch to CVS-N.M".
>
> Could you say exactly what you are doing?

Oh my, seems I'm a victim of the reproducibility-ignorance-demon
despite extensive training.  Sorry about that.  Hubris, I guess. :/

>  Did you do a fresh checkout?

Nope, not that time, but below I just did.

> Or check out into an existing source tree?

Yes: a tree checked out prior to the recent changes.
(Exactly when is hopefully unimportant - decades ago.)

>  If the latter, was that tree
> populated using a different module previously?

Just the same "sim" module as before the changes.

And apparently even that detail doesn't matter:

> Indeed, if I run the same "cvs co sim" command twice, the second time I
> get:
>
> cvs checkout: existing repository /cvs/src/CVSROOT/Emptydir does not match /cvs/src/src/gdb
>
> ... but cvs still exits with status 0 for me.

Odd; it being 1 for me doesn't seem version-dependent.
Starting from scratch, at a second "cvs -d
:pserver:anoncvs@sourceware.org:/cvs/src co sim" I get:

cvs checkout: warning: src/config.if is not (any longer) pertinent
cvs checkout: warning: src/configure.in is not (any longer) pertinent
cvs checkout: warning: src/gettext.m4 is not (any longer) pertinent
cvs checkout: warning: src/ltcf-c.sh is not (any longer) pertinent
cvs checkout: warning: src/ltcf-cxx.sh is not (any longer) pertinent
cvs checkout: warning: src/ltcf-gcj.sh is not (any longer) pertinent
cvs checkout: warning: src/ltconfig is not (any longer) pertinent
cvs checkout: existing repository /cvs/src/CVSROOT/Emptydir does not match /cvs/src/src/gdb
cvs checkout: ignoring module src/gdb/version.in

and then exit value 1 (cvs 1.11.5).

> I'm using cvs 1.11.23.  I suppose you could try upgrading, but I don't
> know whether that would help or not.

I don't think it would.  On another machine, at the second
checkout (with the first identical command populating the tree)
with a CVS version apparently matching yours, the same thing
happens:

[hp@derp sim]$ cvs -d :pserver:anoncvs@sourceware.org:/cvs/src co sim
cvs checkout: warning: src/config.if is not (any longer) pertinent
cvs checkout: warning: src/configure.in is not (any longer) pertinent
cvs checkout: warning: src/gettext.m4 is not (any longer) pertinent
cvs checkout: warning: src/ltcf-c.sh is not (any longer) pertinent
cvs checkout: warning: src/ltcf-cxx.sh is not (any longer) pertinent
cvs checkout: warning: src/ltcf-gcj.sh is not (any longer) pertinent
cvs checkout: warning: src/ltconfig is not (any longer) pertinent
cvs checkout: existing repository /cvs/src/CVSROOT/Emptydir does not match /cvs/src/src/gdb
cvs checkout: ignoring module src/gdb/version.in
[hp@derp sim]$ echo $?
1
[hp@derp sim]$ rpm -q cvs
cvs-1.11.23-25.fc17.x86_64

> Maybe I can reproduce the exit failure with more information.
>
>
> Not sure what else to do.

But what is the cause of the error?  Can't we just remove that
Emptydir or revert what was done? The message above seems to
indicate an operational error in whatever was done.

Thanks for your efforts.

brgds, H-P