From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 30 11:03:49 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 85A9F106564A for ; Mon, 30 Jun 2008 11:03:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jdc@parodius.com) Received: from mx01.sc1.parodius.com (mx01.sc1.parodius.com [72.20.106.3]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 756218FC40 for ; Mon, 30 Jun 2008 11:03:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jdc@parodius.com) Received: by mx01.sc1.parodius.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 51A7E1CC033; Mon, 30 Jun 2008 04:03:49 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 04:03:49 -0700 From: Jeremy Chadwick To: Yousef Raffah Message-ID: <20080630110349.GA80339@eos.sc1.parodius.com> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Syncing or maybe update issue X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 11:03:49 -0000 On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 01:09:25PM +0300, Yousef Raffah wrote: > Hello, > > I have a box which can't sync using cvsup, therefore, ... Let's start here. Why not? What happens? Have you used -L2? Also, if you're using 6.2 or later, you should be able to use csup (comes with the base system) and not cvsup. > I thought of > using cvs by invoking the following command in the directory > /usr/src/cvs/ > > # cvs -d freebsdanoncvs@anoncvs.freebsd.org:/home/ncvs co src > > I do get all the updates and it seems to be checking out successfully, > however, when I try to > # make -j4 buildword > I get the following error about elf.h not being found! This looks like you're checking out HEAD/-CURRENT. Is this really what you want to be doing? Probably not, based on the fact you mailed freebsd-stable and not freebsd-current. Please take the time to read this in full. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/anoncvs.html -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB |