Re: Help with CVS (Was: Conditionals in CVS Automake)

[Robert Boehne]

Akim:

I think the breakage was introduced on March 5.  I wasn't
able to narrow it down to any specific change though.
None of them seemed to me like they were candidates.

Robert

Akim Demaille wrote:
> 
> >>>>> "Lars" == Lars J Aas <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> Lars> On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 08:26:59PM +0200, Akim Demaille wrote: :
> Lars> Could someone teach me how to go backward with CVS and pull out
> Lars> : revision n-1?  I'm quite lost with this issue, and I'd like to
> Lars> use CVS : to have at least an idea of _when_ it started to fail.
> Lars> I know how to : do that with PRCS, but have no idea about CVS.
> 
> Lars> Select a file revision from the "cvs log <file>" dump, and check
> Lars> it out with "cvs update -r 1.325 <file>".  The revision becomes
> Lars> sticky - you release the glue and get the latest again with "cvs
> Lars> update -A <file>".
> 
> Thanks, but I was really asking the question for the whole *project*.
> With PRCS I can talk about revision n - 1 of the *project*, i.e., the
> full set of the files.  According to private messages with Lars
> (Hecking :), you need to tag to be able to do that.  So I dropped this
> idea and I'm currently running the following script.  Hopefully
> tomorrow it should give some hints.
> 
> #! /bin/zsh
> 
> for i in {1..350}
> do
>   echo
>   echo
>   echo '=================================================================='
>   echo "Getting $i days ago..."
>   echo "Getting $i days ago..." >>LOG
>   cvs update -A -D "$i day ago"
>   rm automake
>   make
>   (
>    cd ~/src/libtool-mlt/demo
>    /tmp/am/automake --amdir=/tmp/am --verbose
>    cd ..
>    ./config.status
>    make check TESTS='cdemo-static.test cdemo-make.test cdemo-exec.test 
> demo-static.test demo-make.test' && exit 1
>    true
>   ) || break
> done
> 
> echo "STOPPED at: $i" >> LOG
> mail address@hidden <LOG

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