[Tinyos-devel] CVS Problems with tosboot

[J. Ryan Stinnett]

Quoting Philip Levis <pal at cs.stanford.edu>:

> 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
>
>

The -P option was already set, but unfortunately the directory is not "empty"
since it seems to confuse tosboot and TOSBoot.  I can't seem to find a fix for
this, but I've switched over to the Eclipse CVS client, which seems to handle
the situation properly.

- Ryan