FYI, I was able to avoid the problem of modifying timestamps, while importing textutils or coreutils under cvs by using "-d" flag


Jim Meyering wrote:


Nitin Gupta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:


I downloaded textutils-2.1.tar.gz from gnu website.

I was trying to build textutils for our processor. I saved textutils
under CVS source control (which apparently changed the timestamps of



textutils-2.1 is getting old. You're not the first to make the mistake of getting/using it.[*] I suggest that you use the coreutils, not the textutils.

 ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-5.0.90.tar.bz2
 (coreutils is the union of fileutils, textutils, and sh-utils)

The latest sources are available via CVS here:

http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/coreutils/

If you need to check things into your own repository, or otherwise
change timestamps, then you should to get recent versions of tools
like autoconf, automake, and bison.

Jim

[*] There is still at least one GNU web page

http://www.gnu.org/directory/GNU/textutils.html

that describes the textutils without mentioning that
that package has been superseded by the coreutils.
Unfortunately, I haven't yet found out how to update that page.




-- -NI+IN

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