On Mon 05 Feb, Richard Earnshaw wrote:
> 
> kjetil@thomassen.priv.no said:
> > It turns out that, for some unknown reason, CVS fails to update my
> > arch directory with the arm directory from the anoncvs server. I can
> > see it at http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/ but still it is not downloaded to
> > my local sandbox. The sandbox is a on NetBSD/sparc 1.4 system running
> > a pretty recent cvs 1.11 from pkgsrc. 
> 
> Did you use
> 
>  cvs update -dP
> 
> ?

No, and that was the problem.

> CVS only pulls new subdirs with the -d option.  -P causes it to purge
> empty directories as well.

Yes, now I know. Chris Gilbert told me the same thing, and now I have
updated my source tree with the arch/arm directory as well, and config
worked fine. I now have a make depend running on the FOURMEG kernel in
the arm26 port.

Thanks for your help!

Kjetil B.
mailto:kjetil@thomassen.priv.no
http://www.thomassen.priv.no/