winsup cvs checkout weirdness

Thu Nov 8 03:51:00 GMT 2007

Lapo Luchini wrote:
> I wonder why the -d option weirds out the checkout.
>> -d dir Check out into dir instead of module name.
>> ...and moreover, should by default be created in a "winsup" directory?
> ("instead of module name" in the man, which suggests it's the default)

It's a "feature"/artifact of how CVS modules work. The "winsup" is an
alias that checks out multiple modules, and this does not work with -d. 
If you use an actual path instead of a module name (i.e. "co -d try
src/winsup") then you'll successfully get the winsup dir under try/ --
but this is probably not what you want, as it does not include the other
modules necessary to actually build Cygwin like toplevel, newlib,
config, libiberty, etc. (aka naked-winsup.)
Brian
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