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According to Volker Borchert on 5/13/2009 12:00 AM: > I wrote: > > |> In the meantime, I managed to pamper a flakey sparc-sun-sunos5.7 to > |> compile and install m4/autoconf/automake, so I might be able to do > |> something useful ;-) > |> > > Had a closer look at coreutils, and then gnulib. > | "Gnulib does not make releases. It is intended to be used at the source > level." > Not nice, I prefer things that have a version number, but OK, let's try > anonymous CVS: > > Hades:[/archive/tmp] 18 % cvs -d > :pserver:anonym...@pserver.git.sv.gnu.org:/gnulib.git login > (Logging in to anonym...@pserver.git.sv.gnu.org) > CVS password: > Hades:[/archive/tmp] 19 % cvs -d > :pserver:anonym...@pserver.git.sv.gnu.org:/gnulib.git co -d gnulib HEAD > cvs [checkout aborted]: request `Repository' not supported by server > Hades:[/archive/tmp] 20 % Anonymous CVS is being provided by a gitcvsserver, which is: a) not as full-featured as CVS itself b) not fully tested (everyone prefers git itself, over the outdated CVS) > > I think I'm giving up on m4, at least for now and officially. This is > getting out of hand. I think I could conjure some dirty hacks, but these > of course wouldn't find (nor even seek) your approval. You may have more luck if you do a git checkout on a newer machine that supports git, then copying the files over to the older machine (perhaps via a networked file system). - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake e...@byu.net -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkoKtQIACgkQ84KuGfSFAYCNZwCfT4nehMaz/5KP/YpyXEQ6yemh cCYAnjdl+LQqSrZ595NsuXAPyVOrldLo =kV1W -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
