From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 3 13: 9: 0 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gershwin.tera.com (gershwin.tera.com [207.224.230.28]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF22B37B668 for ; Mon, 3 Apr 2000 13:07:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline@tera.com) Received: from tera.com (athena.sea.tera.com [207.224.230.169]) by gershwin.tera.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA11992; Mon, 3 Apr 2000 13:07:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: by tera.com (8.8.8+Sun/SMI-SVR4) id NAA16731; Mon, 3 Apr 2000 13:07:35 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2000 13:07:35 -0700 From: Gary Kline To: "Ryugen C. Fisher" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: $CVSROOT Message-ID: <20000403130735.B16699@athena.sea.tera.com> References: <20000403162903.D85754@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> <4.3.1.2.20000403141923.00a85930@mail.palaver.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95us In-Reply-To: <4.3.1.2.20000403141923.00a85930@mail.palaver.org>; from Ryugen C. Fisher on Mon, Apr 03, 2000 at 02:27:47PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Apr 03, 2000 at 02:27:47PM -0500, Ryugen C. Fisher wrote: > At 01:24 PM 4/3/00, you wrote: > >On Mon, 3 Apr 2000, Ben Smithurst wrote: > > > Looking in the Lehey book, while working on a problem of my own, I noted > that (pg 284-etc) a reference to $CVSROOT ... in a normal structure, and > needing to do a "make world" I discovered that I don't have a CLUE what to > set this variable TOO, although now that I am using bash and the above > notes, I at least have a clue as to how to set it when I know what it is > supposed to be....... thanks for solving 1/2 the puzzle.. care to help > finish it? CVSROOT is the name that the cvs utility uses to store its main data files and the RCS ,v files. Often, CVS uses the directory /home//cvsroot for the user . CVS and RCS are worth understanding if you are doing serious project development. RCS is primarily for the signle user or a very few users/developers; CVS (which uses RCS) is for more widely distributed projects. gary To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message