Re: Problem (and solution) building from CVS

[Michael Snyder <msnyder at vmware dot com>]

Jeremy Bennett wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-09-16 at 13:21 -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 05:46:43PM +0100, Jeremy Bennett wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2008-09-16 at 11:01 -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> > > > On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 02:24:31PM +0100, Jeremy Bennett wrote:
> > > > > I ran into problems building from the CVS tree earlier today. I checked
> > > > > out the GDB tree using:
> > > > >
> > > > >   cvs -d :pserver:anoncvs@sourceware.org:/cvs/src co gdb
> > > > This command should not get you gdb/gdbtk.  It doesn't when I check it
> > > > out.  DId you cvs up -dP later on?
> > > Yes I did.
> > That's why.  Update using the same command you used to check out, and
> > you won't get gdbtk (or a lot of other things not related to GDB).
>
> Hi Daniel,
>
> I'll use "cvs co", not "cvs update". Thanks for the explanation.

Update is fine, it's a question of what options.
The options Daniel named will cause update to pull in
stuff that was not originally checked out.