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Re: Setup cvs HEAD build problems
Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Mar 2003, Max Bowsher wrote:
>>
>> I've remembered the complication I mentioned: cvs checkout recreates
>> timestamps from the repository, but cvs update does not. However,
>> this won't bother us, since we hardly ever update the
>> zlib/bz2lib/rsync subdirs.
>>
>> I'll verify the order you quote above, and make appropriate changes
>> to CVS. Max.
>
> I think this might have been the source of my original problem -- I
> did an "update" instead of a "checkout"... Does this merit a note on
> the setup build webpage?
I don't think so - I'm going to merge zlib-1.1.4 soon, but normally, the
zlib/bz2lib/rsync subdirs will be almost static. Its such a corner case,
people probably won't even remember it when it happens to them.
Max.