From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: problem with cvs binary?
Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2013 15:01:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130716131044.GJ2712@calimero.vinschen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <51E54596.5040400@cwilson.fastmail.fm>
On Jul 16 09:07, Charles Wilson wrote:
> On 7/15/2013 11:21 PM, Mark Levedahl wrote:
> >The currently provided cvs executable does not work correctly, simple
> >test case is:
> >
> >~>export CVSROOT=/tmp/cvsroot
> >~>cvs init
> >~>cvs co -d /tmp/workdir .
> >cvs [checkout aborted]: cannot make directory : No such file or directory
> >
> >~>cygcheck -c cvs
> >Cygwin Package Information
> >Package Version Status
> >cvs 1.12.13-10 OK
> >
> >~>uname -a
> >CYGWIN_NT-5.1 virt-winxp 1.7.20(0.266/5/3) 2013-06-07 11:11 i686 Cygwin
> >
> >The above should checkout the empty project to /tmp/workdir, but does
> >not work with the binary provided via setup.exe. This does work
> >correctly with a) cvs-1.12.13 rebuilt from sources, and b) with cvs v
> >1.11.22-1 downloaded from setup.exe. The expected result:
>
> Thanks for the report. Rebuilding cvs against current 32bit
> w32api/cygwin is on my list, as well updating the 64bit package.
> However, it comes after (a) mingw-gcc cross compiler & friends, (b)
> automake-X.Y, and (c) libtool. :-(
Are the mingw cross compilers still necessary, now that we have
modern mingw-w64 toolchains? On Fedora they aren't shipped since
F17, which already came with mingw-w64 toolchains either.
Corinna
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-07-16 13:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-07-16 6:03 Mark Levedahl
2013-07-16 13:30 ` Charles Wilson
2013-07-16 15:01 ` Corinna Vinschen [this message]
2013-07-16 15:52 ` mingw.org cross compiler [Was: problem with cvs binary?] Charles Wilson
2013-07-16 17:05 ` Earnie Boyd
2013-07-17 1:39 ` Charles Wilson
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