Re: [Fwd: I may be stupid, but I can't build CVS]

[Russ Lewis]

I WAS ABLE TO BUILD!!! :)

But the bootstrap script didn't do it...changing CVS commands did.

I tried bootstrap, it still failed..but then I saw the pre-config script
and, on a whim, ran it to see what it would do.  It failed because it
couldn't remove the intl/ directory.  I looked at it, and the only thing
in intl/ was the CVS directory.  I started to wonder...

So I removed the whole bison/ directory and got a new copy, but this
time, instead of "checkout" I did "export" (which doesn't create the
CVS/ directories throughout):
    cvs export -Dtoday bison

Now, bootstrap worked...then I ran ./configure...then I built...and
there was a source in src/bison!

Now, I don't know hardly anything about the autoconfigure scripts, but
maybe now somebody will know what was going wrong with my build.

Akim Demaille wrote:

> Hi Russ,
>
> I have checked in a script, named bootstrap, which should help you.
> Just read README-cvs again, and report additional problems.  Thanks!

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