[Tinyos-devel] CVS Problems with tosboot

[Philip Levis]

On Jul 11, 2007, at 2:55 PM, J. Ryan Stinnett wrote:

> I've been working with Mike from JHU to fix some last minute issues  
> with Deluge
> T2 before 2.0.2 is frozen, and I've noticed that ever since tos/lib/ 
> TOSBoot was
> renamed to tosboot, CVS downloads a new copy every time I do an  
> update.
>
> I'm pretty sure the problem is that I'm using Windows, which is case
> insensitive.  In the CVS log during an update, it shows that it is  
> updating
> tosboot, but then stores those files in TOSBoot.  On a subsequent  
> update, it
> will say that the directory TOSBoot is in the way, delete it, and  
> repeat
> downloading the tosboot directory, only to still call it TOSBoot.
>
> Are any other Windows CVS users having this issue?  Programs can  
> still compile
> via Cygwin even though the case is now different from the  
> makefiles, so it's
> not a huge problem, but it would be nice to stop downloading  
> tosboot everytime
> I update. Also, I don't use CVS very frequently, so I may be  
> missing something
> here, but I think this is the issue.

If TOSBoot is an empty directory, then -P may help.

Phil