From owner-freebsd-current Wed Apr 16 14:22:54 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA11118 for current-outgoing; Wed, 16 Apr 1997 14:22:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za (zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za [146.64.24.58]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA11109 for ; Wed, 16 Apr 1997 14:22:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from jhay@localhost) by zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za (8.8.5/8.8.5) id XAA22198; Wed, 16 Apr 1997 23:22:14 +0200 (SAT) From: John Hay Message-Id: <199704162122.XAA22198@zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za> Subject: Re: Trouble with make release In-Reply-To: from Tom Bartol at "Apr 16, 97 01:05:03 pm" To: bartol@salk.edu (Tom Bartol) Date: Wed, 16 Apr 1997 23:22:14 +0200 (SAT) Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > How do you do a "make release" in /usr/src/release. > > I'm running -current and would like make my own snapshot with make > release. I've looked at the Makefile in /usr/src/release and set the > BUILDNAME and CHROOTDIR variables there. I then do a make release which > proceeds just fine until it hits the cvs command at which point it gorks > as follows: > > ===> lkm/wcd > install -c -o bin -g bin -m 555 wcd_mod.o > /usr/local/src/freebsd-3.0-CNL/lkm > cd /usr/local/src/freebsd-3.0-CNL/usr && rm -rf src && cvs -d co -P src > cvs: invalid option -- P > > Apparently the CVSROOT environment variable is never set so there is just > a blank after "cvs -d" instead of an absolute path name. Does anyone have > any clues as to how I to fix this? > It seems that you already have the answer: set the CVSROOT environment variable to wherever your cvs repository is. :-) John -- John Hay -- John.Hay@mikom.csir.co.za