Syncing or maybe update issue

[Jeremy Chadwick]

On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 01:09:25PM +0300, Yousef Raffah wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have a box which can't sync using cvsup, therefore, ...

Let's start here.  Why not?  What happens?  Have you used -L2?

Also, if you're using 6.2 or later, you should be able to use csup
(comes with the base system) and not cvsup.

> I thought of
> using cvs by invoking the following command in the directory
> /usr/src/cvs/
> 
> # cvs -d freebsdanoncvs at anoncvs.freebsd.org:/home/ncvs co src
> 
> I do get all the updates and it seems to be checking out successfully,
> however, when I try to
> # make -j4 buildword
> I get the following error about elf.h not being found!

This looks like you're checking out HEAD/-CURRENT.  Is this really what
you want to be doing?  Probably not, based on the fact you mailed
freebsd-stable and not freebsd-current.

Please take the time to read this in full.

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/anoncvs.html

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