From bug-request at octave dot org Wed Mar  2 10:26:25 2005
Subject: problem building from CVS after sparse merge
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: Stefan van der Walt <stefan at sun dot ac dot za>
Cc: bug at octave dot org
Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2005 11:32:19 -0500

On  2-Mar-2005, Stefan van der Walt <stefan at sun dot ac dot za> wrote:

| When trying to compile the current revision in CVS I get
| 
| config.status: creating control/util/Makefile
| config.status: creating deprecated/Makefile
| config.status: creating elfun/Makefile
| config.status: creating finance/Makefile
| config.status: creating general/Makefile
| config.status: creating image/Makefile
| config.status: creating io/Makefile
| config.status: creating linear-algebra/Makefile
| config.status: creating miscellaneous/Makefile
| config.status: creating plot/Makefile
| config.status: creating polynomial/Makefile
| config.status: creating quaternion/Makefile
| config.status: creating set/Makefile
| config.status: creating signal/Makefile
| config.status: error: cannot find input file: sparse/Makefile.in
| configure: error: /bin/sh './configure' failed for scripts
| 
| Did this slip in with the merge, or is my checkout broken?

Did you update?  By default, CVS does not add new directories, so you
should use a command like

  cvs update -d

to add new direoctories, or

  cvs update -d -P

if you also want to prune empty directories after updating.

jwe



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