Re: Patch: modules -vs- Java

[Geoff Keating <geoffk at geoffk dot org>]

> Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 18:51:25 +0000 (GMT)
> From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@cam.ac.uk>
> cc: gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org
> 
> On Tue, 19 Dec 2000, Geoff Keating wrote:
> 
> > > cvs -z9 co -regcs_1_1_release gcc
> > > 
> > > (as documented in cvs.html) seems to work fine; the directory name has
> > > simply changed.
> > 
> > Yes, but it was originally called 'egcs'.
> 
> It works checking out as egcs as well (thanks to the symlink).  If the
> symlink goes away at some point then "egcs gcc" can go in the modules
> file, but the view at the time the symlink was added (e.g.
> <URL:http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2000-11/msg00424.html>) was not to have
> such an entry in the modules file.

If you want to reproduce the actual tarfiles which were released, you
need to check out not just 'egcs', but 'egcs-full', and
'egcs-testsuite', and so on.

-- 
- Geoffrey Keating <geoffk@geoffk.org>