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Subject: Re: kernel don't compile
In-Reply-To: <199708070107.KAA01600@freebie.lemis.com> from Greg Lehey at "Aug 7, 97 10:37:53 am"
To: grog@lemis.com (Greg Lehey)
Date: Thu, 7 Aug 1997 13:35:01 +0930 (CST)
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Greg Lehey stands accused of saying:
> 
> This looks suspciously like a cvs error.  You'll probably find a diff
> line at 935.  Try this:
> 
>   cd /usr/src/sys/i386/isa
>   ln -s `cat CVS/Repository` RCS
>   rcsdiff -wu isa.c

It is much easier to say :

% cd /sys/i386/isa
% cvs diff -wu isa.c

> You should find significant differences.  To fix things, do
> 
>   co isa.c

And likewise 

% rm isa.c
% cvs update isa.c

> This assumes you're tracking -current.  Otherwise you need to find out
> the RCS version number or tag and check that out (and use this for the
> rcsdiff, as well).

If you are using CVS, you don't need to do any of this.  I strongly
advise against using RCS commands for anything involving the CVS repo.

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