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Re: Compiling CVS 1.10.7 on Intel/Solaris7
From: |
Larry Jones |
Subject: |
Re: Compiling CVS 1.10.7 on Intel/Solaris7 |
Date: |
Thu, 30 Aug 2001 14:15:05 -0400 (EDT) |
Seb writes:
>
> When I try to create a repository using cvs init, all I get is :
> syntax error at line 1: unspecified ')'
>
> Executing cvs without parameters gives me the same error instead of
> giving me the command format with the list of possible parameters.
>
> I checked if I was really running /usr/local/bin/cvs, not a script
> somewhere else in the PATH.
Try doing ``file /usr/local/bin/cvs'' -- it looks like your system
thinks it's a shell script of some kind rather than an executable. Try
running the CVS executable you actually built rather than the copy in
/usr/local/bin; my guess is that something went wrong during the
install.
-Larry Jones
Kicking dust is the only part of this game we really like. -- Calvin