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Re: Problem building CVS-1.10.x
- To: "Steven N. Hirsch" <shirsch at adelphia dot net>
- Subject: Re: Problem building CVS-1.10.x
- From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com>
- Date: Wed, 29 Dec 1999 04:19:35 -0800 (PST)
- Cc: Trevor Forbes <trevorf at deakin dot edu dot au>, cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- Reply-To: earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com
--- "Steven N. Hirsch" <shirsch@adelphia.net> wrote:
-8<-
> <sigh>, no my immediate problem is _not_ the line endings. It's the fact
> that I'm unable to compile a working version of cvs-1.10.x. It builds
> without incident or error. When I try to use it by doing, e.g.
>
> $ cvs co CVSROOT
>
> (against my own server)
>
> it spits out:
>
> cvs.exe [checkout aborted]: writing to server: The descriptor is a file,
> not a socket
>
> and dies. This is the problem I need to solve. Once I can get it working
> to begin with, I'll worry about modifying it to preserve line-endings.
>
> For whatever reason, no one else is reporting this runtime error. The
> error is coming from a section of code that tries to flush a buffer back
> to the server in client.c of cvs.
It sounds as if it's time to use gdb, use a previous version, or ask your
question on a cvs user list. I have the Cygwin CD Version 1 (retail package)
and it has CVS-1.10 built already as a contributed package.
=====
Earnie Boyd <mailto:earnie_boyd@yahoo.com>
Cygwin Newbies, please visit
<http://www.freeyellow.com/members5/gw32/index.html>
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