Re: Current snapshot

[Elena Zannoni <ezannoni@redhat.com>]

Nick Roberts writes:
 > 
 > I've downloaded the current snapshot (it was gdb+dejagnu-20030201.tar.bz2),
 > uncompressed, unpacked and built gdb without any problem.
 > 
 > I'm ready to receive the imminent patches for:
 > 
 > interpreter mi -<mi-command> <mi-args> 
 > -interpreter-exec console cli-command
 > 
 > http://sources.redhat.com/gdb/current/ says
 > 
 > > Once you have downloaded and unpacked this snapshot, you can cd to the src
 > > directory and use the command:
 > 
 > > cvs update
 > 
 > > to bring your sources up-to-date (see note above about login).
 > 
 > I can't find the src directory. The directory that appears to contain the
 > sources is gdb and there are no directories called CVS or files called Root,
 > Entries anywhere etc. So when I type cvs update, I get
 > 
 > > cvs update: No CVSROOT specified!  Please use the `-d' option
 > > cvs [update aborted]: or set the CVSROOT environment variable.
 > 
 > Can anyone help please?
 > 

Instead of downloading a snapshot, which doesn't have the CVS stuff in it,
do a cvs checkout as explained in http://sources.redhat.com/gdb/current/

then, all you will have to do is a 'cvs update' to get the patches.

elena


 > Nick