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How do you compile from CVS?

Posted on: Thu, 2005-08-18 18:22
How do you compile from CVS?

Since due to the many distrubutions on there, many programs have just the source for linux. I already know how to compile the linux source code to install programs, although unfortunatly, I never got much beyond "Hello World" in programing. I heard with cvs you can get the latest development version of a program rather than the more stable "user" versions. Since I am interested in eventually being a developer, I would like to know how to use cvs now. I tried reading the documentation, but it didn't help me.


Posted on: Thu, 2005-08-18 18:22 #1
Re: How do you compile from CVS?

It's been a while since I used cvs, and then I only used it on the developer side, inside a university project.

Anyway, the process is more or less like this:

mkdir project
cd project
export CVSROOT=connectiontype:host.domain
cvs login

cvs checkout /path/to/files
# or, if you already have the files
cvs update

# test, modify, run cvs update, rinse, wash, repeat

cvs commit # sends your changes back to the repository

Subversion (svn) is used in a similiar way. Darcs has a better, more flexible decentralized design. I don't know about arch.

I hope you now at least know what to look for in the manual.

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