Re: Confused about source code of coreutils

[Jim Meyering]

Alexander Kahl <address@hidden> wrote:
> I tried coreutils from CVS which gave me the following error:
>
>     sh: build-aux/git-version-gen: No such file or directory
>
> After that I tried coreutils from GIT and got those errors:
>
>     copy.c:42:22: error: file-set.h: No such file or directory
>     copy.c:48:25: error: hash-triple.h: No such file or directory
>
> Strange to say that these files exist in CVS version, but the file 
> "git-version-gen" is missing in CVS version.
> I hope you can help me to understand the situation :)

Don't use cvs.
Some bits aren't synchronized any more,
and I haven't had time to fix it.

Check out from the git repository instead:

  git clone git://git.sv.gnu.org/coreutils