Re: How do I get latest CVS and compile Emacs?

[Martin Stone Davis]

Harald Maier wrote:

> Martin Stone Davis <m0davis@pacbell.net> writes:
>
>
> > Harald Maier wrote:
> >
> >
> > > Martin Stone Davis <m0davis@pacbell.net> writes:
> > >
> > >
> > > > I would like to get the latest CVS of emacs and compile it for Windows
> > > > XP. I read http://savannah.gnu.org/statement.html, but I don't know
> > > > what I'm supposed to do.
> > > >
> > > > My (lack of) experience: I am an almost-total newbie to CVS.  I have
> > > > some experience using Eclipse to access and compile a CVS Java
> > > > project.  I have emacs 21.3.1 loaded and I also have MS Visual Studio
> > > > 6.0 (not loaded).
> > >
> > > You need a cvs client program. I am using the cvs program from the
> > > cygwin.com port but I think you should also be able with the eclipse
> > > program. Important is the CVSROOT and that you are using the SSH. In
> > > the following command the CVSROOT is
> > > anoncvs@cvs.gnu.org:/cvs-latest/emacs
> > > ,----
> > > | $ export CVS_RSH=ssh
> > > | $ cvs -z3 -d:ext:anoncvs@cvs.gnu.org:/cvs-latest/emacs co emacs
> > > `----
> >
> > I tried this and I get the following message:
> >
> > cvs [checkout aborted]: cannot start server via rsh: No such file or
> > directory
> >
> > I tried both a command-line version in windows (where I used set
> > CVS_RSH=ssh) and also I tried using WinCVS.  Both gave me the same
> > result.
> >
> > What am I doing wrong?
>
>
> Do you have a ssh program? You need a secure shell. My dark shot is
> that you don't have one.

True, at the time I didn't.  However, I got PuTtY and copied pscp to my 
CVS directory.  I continued to get errors, but of a different sort:

Fatal: More than one remote source not supported
cvs [checkout aborted]: end of file from server (consult above messages 
if any)


When I run pscp alone, I get this:

S:\CVS>pscp -r -v anoncvs@cvs.gnu.org:/cvs-latest/emacs S:\CVS\local
Looking up host "cvs.gnu.org"
Connecting to 199.232.41.2 port 22
Server version: SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_3.4p1 Debian 1:3.4p1-1.woody.3.1
We claim version: SSH-2.0-PuTTY-Release-0.53b
Using SSH protocol version 2
Doing Diffie-Hellman group exchange
Doing Diffie-Hellman key exchange
Host key fingerprint is:
ssh-rsa 1024 80:5a:b0:0c:ec:93:66:29:49:7e:04:2b:fd:ba:2c:d5
Using username "anoncvs".
Access granted
Opened channel for session
Primary command failed; attempting fallback
Started a shell/command
Connected to subversions.gnu.org

Server sent command exit status 0


Any clue?

> Harald