CVS and lib/X11? (was Re: XTHREADLIB and DragonFly and x11.pc)

Adam Jackson ajax at nwnk.net
Fri Feb 24 17:17:37 PST 2006


On Friday 24 February 2006 16:58, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> On Fri, 24 Feb 2006, Adam Jackson wrote:
> > I'll push that particular change to the git tree and properly shut down
> > commitability to the CVS repo.
>
> Thanks.
>
> But what about those using cvs to check out "lib" and using build.sh?
>
> (Someone emailed me about a build failure which was fixed in git but not
> in cvs as they used from some directions they followed.)
>
> Is it already documented to also use a git client to additionally retrieve
> libX11?

Yeah, this came up too, and I haven't heard a good solution for it yet.  It 
would be pleasant if people would note on the wiki somehow what SCM commands 
should be used to check out their modules.

That said I don't think there's any plan to move changes from the git repo 
back into cvs.

- ajax
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