>> i was using "cvs update -d -P" as i learned it from
>> 
>>    http://www.netbsd.org/Documentation/current/#using-anoncvs
>> 
>> in the part entitled "To update the sources".
>
>It's been this way for a while... you may not have noticed it earlier if
>you did the cvs update after a 'make cleandir'.  I run into this when
>trying to update into the directory when there are object files in it.

yeah.  i was trying to "win" and not have to rebuild everything.
aw...shucks.

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