Re: CVS Back online, web address.

[mmadore <mmadore@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

On 11 Oct 1999, Scott Klement wrote:

> I tried using CVS for the first time today, and I found that
> it didn't give me the following files:
> 
> tn5250/configure
> tn5250/Makefile.in
> tn5250/src/Makefile.in
> tn5250/doc/Makefile.in
> tn5250/src/config.h.in
> 
> I grabbed these from the tn5250-0.13.13.tar.gz that I downloaded
> earlier, and everything seems to work...  but shouldn't these
> files also be included in the central repository?
> 
> Or is this all because I'm running FreeBSD instead of Linux? :)

When you get code from CVS, you are getting the same codebase that the
developers use.  Those files are created using automake, libtool and
autoconf.  You will need those tools to compile stuff directly out of CVS.
The tarballs are created so that you don't need those tools.

Mike

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