Re: Emacs-devel Digest, Vol 52, Issue 61

[David Kastrup]

"Eric S. Raymond" <address@hidden> writes:

> Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>:
>> > Date: Sat, 7 Jun 2008 15:24:08 +0000
>> > From: Alan Mackenzie <address@hidden>
>> > Cc: "Eric S. Raymond" <address@hidden>, address@hidden
>> > 
>> > > Does "cvs update -d" create the lisp/nxml dir?
>> >  
>> > Yes, indeed!  And my trunk copy has built.  Calloo, callay!
>> 
>> So the rant about broken Emacs build machinery boiled down to a
>> cockpit error invoking CVS?
>
> Well, that's one way to put it.  An equally valid analysis would
> be that -d ought to be the default rather than an option I've
> never heard of before, and CVS is broken as designed.

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