Re: Checking out /gnumach exits with error, cause 'aux' reserved on cvsnt

[Barry deFreese]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ashish Gokhale" <ag2001_email@yahoo.co.in>
To: "BUG Hurd" <bug-hurd@gnu.org>
Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2006 3:39 PM
Subject: Re: Checking out /gnumach exits with error,cause 'aux' reserved on 
cvsnt


> Hi Thomas,
> I get error "cvs server: cannot find module
> `gnumach-1-branch' - ignored".
>
> I am trying "cvs -d
> :pserver:anonymous@cvs.savannah.gnu.org:/sources/hurd
> co gnumach-1-branch". Is the server URL correct???
>
> yet I dont have a linux or debian box available, is
> there any way i could down load latest GnuMach code
> (and the branch as well) on my windows desktop?
>
> Thanks
> - Ashish
> --- Thomas Schwinge <tschwinge@gnu.org> wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Feb 06, 2006 at 09:59:08PM +0100, Samuel
> > Thibault wrote:
> > > Ashish Gokhale, le Sun 05 Feb 2006 19:07:17 +0000,
> > a ?crit :
> > > > I checked for the error message "cvs [checkout
> > > > aborted]: could not chdir to gnumach/i386/aux:
> > Invalid
> > > > argument"
> > > > I am using windows2000 to download & study the
> > GnuMach
> > > > source code. It seems 'aux' is a reserved word &
> > its
> > >
> > > Ah... Welcome to windows' silly
> > backward-compatibility: just try, you
> > > won't be able to create files names con, com1,
> > aux, prn, etc. You should
> > > probably get source from a linux box and copy it
> > to your windows box
> > > *after* having renamed the aux directory.
> >
> > ... or just get the `gnumach-1-branch', which
> > doesn't have a directory
> > called `aux', which is being actually used compared
> > to HEAD, and which is
> > what I suggested before, if I recall correctly.
> >
> >
> > Regards,
> >  Thomas

Egads, why would you want to bring to Windows?  Anyway, what you want is:

cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sv.gnu.org:/sources/hurd co -r 
gnumach-1-branch gnumach

Enjoy,

Barry deFreese (aka bddebian)