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From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
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Subject: Re: kernel don't compile
In-Reply-To: <199708070405.NAA12934@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from Michael Smith at "Aug 7, 97 01:35:01 pm"
To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith)
Date: Thu, 7 Aug 1997 17:40:52 +0930 (CST)
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Michael Smith writes:
> 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.

Mea culpa.  Guess who hates cvs?

Greg