Re: Building latest Beta Failure

["Joseph I. Davida" <jd@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Andi Kleen wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 02:42:47PM +0000, Joseph I. Davida wrote:
> >       I had enabled dmapi option during configuration.
> >       If this feature is not ready, perhaps the config
> >       should grey it out completely?
> 
> Or the user should use -d when doing a CVS update to grab new directories ?
> 
> -Andi


        Well, the manpage says -d option is for setting the root directory:

-d CVS_root_directory 
              Use CVS_root_directory as the root directory  path­
              name  of  the  master source repository.  Overrides
              the setting of the  CVSROOT  environment  variable.
              This value should be specified as an absolute path­
              name.

        Or for creating a new directory in your version of the
        tree (assuming you KNOW that the source cvs tree has the
        new directgory name) and cvs update -d new_dir will bring
        in new_dir. But this requires that you know the new_dir
        name on the source repository in order to get it's
        contents. Catch 22?