From owner-freebsd-current Fri Mar 14 16:43:41 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id QAA23382 for current-outgoing; Fri, 14 Mar 1997 16:43:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from austin.polstra.com (austin.polstra.com [206.213.73.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA23370 for ; Fri, 14 Mar 1997 16:43:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from austin.polstra.com (jdp@localhost) by austin.polstra.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA02781; Fri, 14 Mar 1997 16:43:27 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199703150043.QAA02781@austin.polstra.com> To: handy@sag.space.lockheed.com Subject: Re: gdb.1proposed solutions. No dice. Newsgroups: polstra.freebsd.current In-Reply-To: References: Organization: Polstra & Co., Seattle, WA Cc: current@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 14 Mar 1997 16:43:27 -0800 From: John Polstra Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Brian and everybody, Sorry I missed this when I was on vacation: In article , Brian N. Handy wrote: > > [GDB falls over with:] > > >make: don't know how to make gdb.1. Stop > [...] > > The people with the whole CVS tree seem to be able to compile this > willy-nilly. > > Those of us that just get a src tree (/usr/src) and 'make world' are > missing the following files: > > gdb.1 > gdbinst.texinfo You are right -- this problem is real. (BTW, it's "gdbint.texinfo".) The RCS files are invalid, and that is causing CVSup to omit them from RELENG_2_2 in checkout mode. In each case, the tag in the RCS file points to revision 1.2.0.2. This signifies the latest revision on the 1.2.2 branch, or revision 1.2 if there is no such branch. (The 0 is a special CVS thing.) These files don't have a 1.2 revision. I'm 99% sure that the 1.2 revisions used to exist but were removed by Peter's recent $FreeBSD$ manipulations. The tags weren't updated correspondingly, and that is the cause of the problem. I'm reluctant to label it a CVSup bug, since the RCS files themselves are indisputably bogus. A "cvs checkout" does the right thing, true, but I'm pretty sure that's by accident rather than by design. I have asked Peter to take a look at the offending RCS files and fix them. If he turns up missing for 24 hours or so, I'll fix them myself. Thanks for your patience. John -- John Polstra jdp@polstra.com John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA "Self-knowledge is always bad news." -- John Barth