Re: [bug-grep] CVS tree incomplete?

[Elliott Hughes]

yes, run ./autogen.sh first.

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On Nov 12, 2004, at 21:12, Tony Abou-Assaleh wrote:

> I thought I'd try to generate my first patch. I started by getting the
> grep from CVS using:
>
> cvs -z3 -d:ext:address@hidden:/cvsroot/grep co grep
>
> Which is a copy-paste from the savannah web site. I got the grep 
> directory
> with SOME files. In particular, the following files exist in grep-2.5.1
> but no in the cvs:
>
> COPYING
> INSTALL
> Makefile.in
> aclocal.m4
> autom4te-2.53.cache
> config.guess
> config.hin
> config.sub
> configure
> depcomp
> install-sh
> missing
> mkinstalldirs
> stamp-h.in
>
> The README file refers to the INSTALL file that doesn't exist. Nor does
> configure. I am a bit at a loss .. am I supposed to run some autogen
> scripts to first to get the code to compile so that I can test it? Or 
> is
> there another way to access the CVS?
>
> Regards,
>
> TAA
>
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