From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 17934 invoked by alias); 16 Jul 2013 13:10:54 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 17922 invoked by uid 89); 16 Jul 2013 13:10:54 -0000 X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-0.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50,RDNS_NONE,TW_NX autolearn=no version=3.3.1 Received: from Unknown (HELO calimero.vinschen.de) (217.91.18.234) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.84/v0.84-167-ge50287c) with ESMTP; Tue, 16 Jul 2013 13:10:52 +0000 Received: by calimero.vinschen.de (Postfix, from userid 500) id A2387520702; Tue, 16 Jul 2013 15:10:44 +0200 (CEST) Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2013 15:01:00 -0000 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: problem with cvs binary? Message-ID: <20130716131044.GJ2712@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <51E54596.5040400@cwilson.fastmail.fm> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <51E54596.5040400@cwilson.fastmail.fm> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-SW-Source: 2013-07/txt/msg00322.txt.bz2 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 -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple