Ah, that makes sense, thank you for the clarification. Yes, I am using Eclipse but I did not know that extssh was an eclipse only contraption. Eclipse now supports the ability to use a different cvs read and write protocol, I'll that a go.
Gary > -----Original Message----- > From: __matthewHawthorne [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, November 07, 2003 19:45 > To: Jakarta Commons Developers List > Subject: Re: [codec] Maven build oddity > > I'll take a guess. > > In the log message, you can tell that it didn't like your CVSROOT. It > looks like you checked out the code using the extssh method in Eclipse? > I believe that this is an Eclipse-only connect method, and command > line CVS tools don't like it. Perhaps StatCvs doesn't detect this > problem very well and bombs via NullPointerException. > > For a quick fix, you can either check out using the :ext: method and > tunnel through ssh, or just comment out the statcvs report in your > project.xml when doing local builds. > > Hope this helps. > > > > > Gary Gregory wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I've been using Maven to build [codec] locally. All goes well except > this > > one goal: > > > > statcvs:generate: > > [echo] fetching cvs logs... > > [cvs] cvs log: Unknown method (`extssh') in CVSROOT. > > [cvs] cvs [log aborted]: Bad CVSROOT: > > `:extssh:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/cvs'. > > [mkdir] Created dir: > > C:\cvs-store\apache.org\jakarta\commons\codec\target\docs\statcvs > > [mkdir] Created dir: > > C:\cvs-store\apache.org\jakarta\commons\codec\target\generated- > xdocs\statcvs > > [java] StatCvs-XML - CVS statistics generation > > [java] > > [java] java.lang.NullPointerException > > [java] at net.sf.statcvs.Main.getModuleName(Main.java:193) > > [java] at net.sf.statcvs.Main.run(Main.java:159) > > [java] at net.sf.statcvs.Main.main(Main.java:78) > > [java] null > > [java] [ERROR] Java Result: 1 > > > > Any tips? > > > > Thanks, > > Gary > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]