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| author | simonpj <unknown> | 2003-11-21 09:09:09 +0000 |
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| committer | simonpj <unknown> | 2003-11-21 09:09:09 +0000 |
| commit | 91099bfd2b6dc08a0404330360192fe809403a29 (patch) | |
| tree | 7bc3f7abe2b03e9c89c06bfebc03a2c0eda1eb52 /docs/building | |
| parent | 303bdd232cd32135407ca71ab438bdf3715a41de (diff) | |
| download | haskell-91099bfd2b6dc08a0404330360192fe809403a29.tar.gz | |
[project @ 2003-11-21 09:09:09 by simonpj]
Add a note about avoiding trailing spaces in CVSROOT
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| -rw-r--r-- | docs/building/building.sgml | 6 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/docs/building/building.sgml b/docs/building/building.sgml index 111e85f6d3..ae21792323 100644 --- a/docs/building/building.sgml +++ b/docs/building/building.sgml @@ -137,6 +137,12 @@ <listitem> <para>Set your <literal>$CVSROOT</literal> environment variable to <literal>:pserver:anoncvs@glass.cse.ogi.edu:/cvs</literal></para> + <para>If you set <literal>$CVSROOT</literal> in a shell script, be sure not to + have any trailing spaces on that line, otherwise CVS will respond with + a perplexing message like + <programlisting> + /cvs : no such repository + </programlisting></para> </listitem> <listitem> <para>Run the command</para> |