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From: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>
Subject: Re: misc/2411: make release fails on 2.2beta
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The following reply was made to PR misc/2411; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>
To: dennisg@seanet.com
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: misc/2411: make release fails on 2.2beta
Date: Tue, 7 Jan 1997 22:21:16 -0700 (MST)

 dennisg@seanet.com writes:
 > 
 > >Number:         2411
 > >Category:       misc
 > >Synopsis:       make release fails on 2.2beta
 > >Confidential:   no
 > >Severity:       non-critical
 > >Priority:       low
 > >Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
 > >State:          open
 > >Class:          sw-bug
 > >Submitter-Id:   current-users
 > >Arrival-Date:   Tue Jan  7 17:30:02 PST 1997
 > >Last-Modified:
 > >Originator:     Dennis Groves
 > >Organization:
 > >Release:        2.2beta
 > >Environment:
 > FreeBSD dennisg 2.2-BETA_A FreeBSD 2.2-BETA_A #0: Mon Jan  6 10:26:41 PST 1997     root@dennisg.seanet.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/CUSTOM  i386
 > 
 > >Description:
 > the followng is a snippit from the make file.
 > 
 > .if !defined(RELEASETAG)
 >         cd ${CHROOTDIR}/usr && rm -rf src && \
 >                 cvs -d ${CVSROOT} co -P src
 > 
 > this fails with -P no a valid *cvs* option.  I don't know why because
 > it is a valid co option it's pupose is to prune the tree.
 
 Is CVSROOT defined in your environment?  Since it's a local variable, it
 must be defined before you run the command.