[Savannah-hackers] Re: problem trying to cvs co gcc

[Mathieu Roy]

Bill Priest <address@hidden> said:

> As per http://gcc.gnu.org/cvs.html
> I issued the following commands
> 
>  cvs -d
> :pserver:address@hidden:/cvsroot/gcc
> login
> This worked
> 
>  cvs -d
> :pserver:address@hidden:/cvsroot/gcc -z 9
> co gcc
> this failed w/
> 
> "cvs checkout: in directory gcc:
> cvs checkout: `..'-relative repositories are not
> supported.
> cvs [checkout aborted]: illegal source repository"
> 
> subsequently I issued
> 
> cvs -d
> :pserver:address@hidden:/cvsroot/gcc -z 9
> co wwwdocs
> 
> which worked correctly (checking out the files).
> 
> I'm running on windows 2k cygwin latest version of
> CVS.
> I'll try later w/ Linux; but can't right now.

With GNU/Linux you mean.

Can you provide output of `cvs --version` of your cvs client?

Regards,

-- 
Mathieu Roy
 
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