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Re: The 'gcc-g++' module name is broken
Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
>On Sun, 17 Feb 2003, Ben Elliston wrote:
>
>
>>Except that the modules file is not versioned and, so, removing a
>>modules file entry makes it impossible (in some cases) to fetch old
>>versions of the tree using scripts/users that expect those module
>>aliases to exist.
>>
>>
>
>Probably I misunderstood, but our modules file is in CVS/RCS:
>
> % cd $GCC_SOURCE/CVSROOT
> % /gcc/cvs/CVSROOT% cvs status modules
> ===================================================================
> File: modules Status: Up-to-date
>
> Working revision: 1.22
> Repository revision: 1.22 /cvs/gcc/CVSROOT/modules,v
> :
>
>
Yes, but one of the more irritating problems with CVS is that it always
uses the latest version of the modules file. If you wanted to use an
older version for checkout, you'd have to manually roll back the changes
in the checked-out copy in CVSROOT.
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