[LLVMdev] Could not access CVS for llvm

Reid Spencer
Mon, 07 Aug 2006 16:26:07 -0000

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).

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.
>
> -- 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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