Re: compiling from cvs

[Brendon <bren@europe.nl.com>]

> B> Lately i've been compiling more and more things from cvs to get the
> B> most up to date versions, but not being familar with the compiling
> B> process i sometimes have no clue what to do.
>
> This is probably a bad idea, then.  Developers tend to use CVS as a
> place to store the absolutely-most-recent working copy of their code,
> along with every version before it.  This means that there's no
> guarantee that the code in CVS works properly, much less even
> compiles. 

perhaps, but i don't mind learning the hard way.

> B> i'm trying to compile konverse from cvs, how would i usually go about
> this B> when there's no configure script,
>
> Yup.  Storing generated files (like configure) in CVS is generally a
> poor idea, since they can vary greatly between build machines and
> versions of unrelated software.

thank you for being completely unhelpful ;)


Brendon