Re: cvs-version - how to build it?

[Helmut Jarausch]

On  4 Dec, Bob Proulx wrote:
> Helmut Jarausch wrote:
>> would somebody be please to kind to tell a poor newbie how to
>> bootstrap the cvs-version of autoconf.
>> 
>> I haven't found any bootstrap script.
> 
> It is called './configure'.
> 

> I will guess that something appears to be wrong with the way you did a
> cvs checkout of the autoconf sources.  How did you get them?  The

That's probably the case
I did (just once again)
cvs -z3 -d:ext:address@hidden:/webcvs/autoconf co autoconf

which did not contain any file 'configure'

> following page documents how to get the sources by CVS.
> 
>   http://savannah.gnu.org/cvs/?group=autoconf
> 
> The following command is documented there.
>   
>   CVS_RSH=ssh cvs -d :ext:address@hidden:/cvsroot/autoconf co autoconf
> 

Thanks, now I see the configure file, as well.
I'd like to suggest to disable access to 
ext:address@hidden:/webcvs/autoconf

Helmut.

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Helmut Jarausch

Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik
RWTH - Aachen University
D 52056 Aachen, Germany