[LLVMdev] Re: Could not access CVS for llvm

Reid Spencer
Mon, 07 Aug 2006 17:29:19 -0000

Its possible to get the "file not found" error if the directory is not
readable. Are you sure you don't have a permissions problem or
something?

Reid.

On Mon, 2006-08-07 at 13:09 -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> 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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