J Colyer writes:
>
> I'm trying to install cvs on a Solaris machine (SunOS 5.7) and I'm
> using Sun's compiler. I've downloaded and tried several different
> versions (1.9 and 1.10.x), but I'm having what is probably the same
> problem with all of them. It will compile fine, but when I try to
> import anything into cvs it says:
>
> cvs [import aborted]: cannot lstat : No such file or directory
>
> In an earlier version (1.9) it would chop off the first two characters
> of the file names when it tried to import them. I think that's what
> it's doing here too, but it stops after the first one (.) instead of
> listing all of the files in the directory like 1.9 did.
I've never heard of such a peculiar problem! We build CVS every night
on SunOS 5.6 using Sun's compiler and run the test suite successfully,
so I can't imagine what your problem might be. Have you tried to run
the test suite? Did you do anything special when configuring?
-Larry Jones
It's going to be a long year. -- Calvin
