[LLVMdev] Re: Could not access CVS for llvm

Hendrik Boom
Mon, 07 Aug 2006 17:09:11 -0000

On Mon, 07 Aug 2006 09:26:07 -0700, Reid Spencer wrote:

> Hendrik,
>
> You could also just "touch ~/.cvspass" to create the file which
should
> eliminate the warning. However, since you did a login, and it seemed
> successful, chances are the file now exists (containing the blank
> password for anon at llvm.org).

Indeed, the file is there.

>
> Reid.
>
> On Mon, 2006-08-07 at 09:14 -0500, John Criswell wrote:
>> Hendrik Boom wrote:
>> > I tried to access the latest LLVM, since several messages here so
far have
>> > referred me to it.  Now I have no experience with
CVS-over-the-net.  My
>> > previous experiences with versoin control have been RCS and
Monotone.
>> >
>> > Brief summary:
>> >
>> > hendrik at lovesong:~/dv$ mkdir llvm
>> > hendrik at lovesong:~/dv$ cd llvm
>> > hendrik at lovesong:~/dv/llvm$ cvs -d :pserver:anon at
llvm.org:/var/cvs/llvm login
>> > Logging in to :pserver:anon at llvm.org:2401/var/cvs/llvm
>> > CVS password:
>> > cvs login: warning: failed to open /farhome/hendrik/.cvspass for
reading: No such file or directory
>> > hendrik at lovesong:~/dv/llvm$
>> >
>> It appears that you only received a warning from cvs indicating that it
>> cannot find a file on your local machine.
>>
>> Have you tried running the "cvs co" command (as documented in
the
>> Getting Started Guide)?  I suspect that it will work since the
"cvs
>> login" error message is only a warning.

Did that today, now that I realise that the login was, against
appearances, successful.  It seems to be working as I post.

-- hendrik

>>
>> -- John T.
>>
>>
>> > So hitting return at the password prompt, as instructed at
>> >   http://llvm.org/docs/GettingStarted.html#checkout
>> > does not appear to work.  Maybe cvs has changed its UI?
>> >
>> > -- hendrik
>> >
>> >
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