Failure with include on Sun, Solaris2.9 with G++

[Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng]

On Mon, 29 Mar 2004, Dave Korn wrote:

>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: binutils-owner On Behalf Of Ian Lance Taylor
> > Sent: 29 March 2004 19:01
>
> > Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng <hgs@dmu.ac.uk> writes:
> >
> > > That's what I did: I followed the instructions by cut and
> > paste from
> > > http://sources.redhat.com/binutils/
> > >
> > > i.e.
> > >
> > >  cvs -z 9 -d :pserver:anoncvs@sources.redhat.com:/cvs/src login
> > > {enter "anoncvs" as the password}  cvs -z 9 -d
> > > :pserver:anoncvs@sources.redhat.com:/cvs/src co binutils
> > >
> > >
> > > and it created the src directory and all below it. Yes, I
> > did include
> > > the word binutils in the paste,
> >
> > Hmmm, are you sure that you didn't run a 'cvs update -d' at
> > any point along the process.
>
>   Every single night; hence my previous post.....

Thank you.  I thought this was the right thing to do because I have
been bitten by not doing this in the past.  Indeed, "Open Source
Development with CVS" suggests putting "update -d -P" in the .cvsrc
file, which I had not done, and now won't :-)   I take it that the
reason this is different for binutils is the paragraph in README:

<quote reformmatted="true">
If you are receiving this as part of a GDB release, see the file
gdb/README.  If with a binutils release, see binutils/README;  if
with a libg++ release, see libg++/README, etc.  That'll give you
info about this package -- supported targets, how to use it, how to
report bugs, etc.
</quote>

i.e there can be so many things associated with it that there will
be other directories in there.  I did some more reading about cvs
last night and understand this much better than I did.

The (sub)thread "cvs checkout and build of binutils"  seems to
suggest that I should be using checkout only.  Is it worth putting
this in the README, or even adding a README-cvs about this?  The
only mention of cvs update I see in the tree is src/gdb/CONTRIBUTE.

>     cheers,
>       DaveK

        Thank you,
        Hugh