Re: Errors GITtifying GCC and Binutils

From: Chris Shoemaker <c.shoemaker@cox.net>
Date: Mar 24, 2006, 00:39 UTC
Message-ID: <20060324003944.GA28652@pe.Belkin>
In-Reply-To: <20060323200306.GG31387@lug-owl.de>

On Thu, Mar 23, 2006 at 09:03:06PM +0100, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote:

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> On Wed, 2006-03-22 17:28:23 -0800, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> wrote:
> > On Wed, 22 Mar 2006, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > > This one-liner to cvsps.c seems to make sure we have an ancestor branch 
> > > for that "gdb-4.18-branch" branch, at least according to the cvsps output. 
> > 
> > The "git cvsimport" is still running, but at least it seems to be happily 
> > running further past the point it broke earlier.
> 
> I've started it once again, too, with the one-liner added to Debian
> unstable's version of cvsps:
> 
> It seems there's a patch like
> http://www.gelato.unsw.edu.au/archives/git/0602/16278.html is missing?
> ...or we need a better cvsps.  Shall I add it and try again / try to
> continue, or give up on it for now?  Though it would be nice to have
> these two large and important source trees under GIT control :-)

You make want to try the cvsps patch I attached to the email here:

http://www.gelato.unsw.edu.au/archives/git/0511/11812.html

Good luck!

-chris