gcc2 sources available via anoncvs (although bootstrap is somewhat quirky).

Scott Christley scottc@net-community.com
Sun Sep 13 23:33:00 GMT 1998


Hans-Peter Nilsson wrote:

> It is very much recommended that compression of the
> data-connection is enabled at all times, so make sure "cvs -z9"
> is present in your $HOME/.cvsrc file.

The word on the street is that -z9 takes up too much CPU for the gained
compression, better to use around -z3 so you don't overload the CVS machine
and deny service to users.

> There are also some bugs; solutions are welcome.  For example,
> "move-if-change" is not executable.  A file called "config.in"
> seems to be missing from the CVS tree.

I was just trying this recently to.  For move-if-change, change the
permission on the file in the CVS repository; that will fix it for future
checkouts, not sure about config.in

thanks Hans!
Scott




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