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Date: Wed, 29 Dec 1999 04:19:35 -0800 (PST)
From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: earnie_boyd@yahoo.com
Subject: Re: Problem building CVS-1.10.x
To: "Steven N. Hirsch" <shirsch@adelphia.net>
Cc: Trevor Forbes <trevorf@deakin.edu.au>, cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com
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--- "Steven N. Hirsch" <shirsch@adelphia.net> wrote:
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> <sigh>, no my immediate problem is _not_ the line endings.  It's the fact
> that I'm unable to compile a working version of cvs-1.10.x.  It builds
> without incident or error.  When I try to use it by doing, e.g.
> 
> $ cvs co CVSROOT
> 
> (against my own server)
> 
> it spits out:
> 
> cvs.exe [checkout aborted]: writing to server: The descriptor is a file,
>  not a socket
> 
> and dies.  This is the problem I need to solve.  Once I can get it working
> to begin with, I'll worry about modifying it to preserve line-endings.
> 
> For whatever reason, no one else is reporting this runtime error.  The
> error is coming from a section of code that tries to flush a buffer back
> to the server in client.c of cvs.

It sounds as if it's time to use gdb, use a previous version, or ask your
question on a cvs user list.  I have the Cygwin CD Version 1 (retail package)
and it has CVS-1.10 built already as a contributed package.


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