Re: Process only sections of a file? (newbie)

[Eric Blake]

On 09/20/2010 07:20 AM, Gary wrote:
> I just followed the instructions at http://www.gnu.org/software/m4/ to
> get the source via cvs. I got the response "cvs checkout: warning:
> unrecognized response `fatal: Invalid revision range
> 46a02bda6d4472e440345498c909609c305b8888..HEAD' from cvs
> server".

What's wrong with using git instead, since that is the preferred 
repository?  It's been ages since I've tried the CVS mirror, so I'm not 
entirely surprised if it is not working any more, although it might be 
nice to figure out why.

> Anyway, then I got loads of files as expected. Not sure how to build
> from them, I looked at the README and saw "See file `INSTALL' for
> compilation and installation instructions." Hokay. Hmm. Where's the file
> "INSTALL"?

Look in HACKING instead for directions for building from VCS files. 
INSTALL won't exist, because it is a git symlink to the gnulib 
submodule, but since you are insisting on a CVS mirror checkout instead, 
which doesn't understand git symlinks, that explains why it doesn't 
exist for you.

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