Henrik Sundberg wrote: > (snip) > I was using cvs from cmd.exe, not from cygwin. > "cvs --version" refererred to http://www.cvsnt.org > > I initially fetched a few separate modules. I might have had > incompatible versions. > > I also had a go at fetching everything from one big rc3.tar.gx(?) file > and then cvs. Well I think I haven't done it in a very straight > forward way... > > I've now fetched everything from scratch from within cygwin. > No problems!
Good! But I still would suspect a hickup of the server during your first try. >>>OpenOffice is just an alias that checkouts the individual modules, not a >>>module by itself. > > Aha, I was surprized that all modules were placed in the root folder > and not in OpenOffice. > I was trying to do as it is said in > http://tools.openoffice.org/dev_docs/build_windows_tcsh.html#BuildingaFullBuildofOpenOffice, > but that can never have worked then (the cvs update part). Do you mean: <http://tools.openoffice.org/dev_docs/build_windows_tcsh.html#GetTheSourceCode> ? That seems OK to me. If you have proposals (or rewritten passages) for that document, just post and I'll commit them. > Thanks for the answers, they really help me not to give up. Thanks for trying :) Volker -- If you like my work consider: http://www.scytek.de/donations.html PGP/GPG key (ID: 0x9F8A785D) available from wwwkeys.de.pgp.net key-fingerprint 550D F17E B082 A3E9 F913 9E53 3D35 C9BA 9F8A 785D
