Anybody using the portcheckout port

[Fbsd8]

Is this port broken?

I can not get it to work.

It gives this message

cvs checkout: No CVSROOT specified! Please use the -d option
Cannot read the INDEX file. Give up

The manpage has no information about any options at all, so have no idea 
how the -d option is to be coded. I do have a /usr/ports/INDEX file so 
don't understand what its complaining about.