cvs update stops at gcc/cp/ChangeLog

[Martin v. Loewis]

> Would someone please tell me how to successfully update?

Hanging CVS updates are a well-known problem, unfortunately, nobody
has ever found enough energy to track it down to the specific bits in
question. This is believed as a problem *not* specific to the GCC
repository. If you have exact date and time (as you do), I hope
somebody of Cygnus can confirm whether there was machine overload or
network shortage at that time - in the past, there never was.

Some people report that not using ssh to update may help. I found that
CVS has serious problems merging large files, so if you made local
modifications, it may be wise to back them out, remove the
then-original ChangeLog, and update. I stopped putting my own changes
in the ChangeLogs primarily because of hanging updates (merge
conflicts were only the secondary reason).

Apart from that - just retry, preferably at a different time of the
day, as lost IP package seem to make a difference.

If you'd manage to analyse the problem, it would not only be
appreciated by the GCC group, but also by many other CVS users
(e.g. the XEmacs people had similar problems).

Regards,
Martin