cygwin cvs (on win2k) copes with this ok. It happens with gcc and maxima sources. It just overwrites on file and complains.
-----Original Message----- From: Charles Wilson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, 7 February 2002 12:56 To: Volker Quetschke Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: cvs: Terminated with fatal signal 6 Just a hunch: do the openoffice sources contain files (within the same directory) whose names differ only in case? If so, then cygwin cvs will have problems... --Chuck Volker Quetschke wrote: > Hi! > > I just tried to download the Openoffice sources with cvs running on > cygwin (1.3.9, everything updatet, all binary mounts) / Windows 2K. > > $export CVSROOT=":pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvs" > > $cvs login > ... Password: anoncvs > > $cvs checkout -r OpenOffice341C OpenOffice > cvs: lock.c:177: lock_name: Assertion `(__extension__ > (__builtin_constant_p ( strlen (CVSroot_directory)) && > ((__builtin_constant_p (repository) && strlen (repository) < ((size_t) ( > strlen (CVSroot_directory)))) || (__builtin_constant_p > [stuff deleted] > CVSroot_directory)))); }) : strncmp (repository, CVSroot_directory, > strlen (CVSroot_directory)))) == 0' failed. > Terminated with fatal signal 6 > > I write this to the cygwin list, because when I try the commands given > above on a sun solaris machine everything is OK and cvs starts to download. > > But I realized that when I mistype the branch on the solaris machine, > e.g. OpenOffice341c (a small c instead of a capital C) I get a similar > fault. > > Is this cygwin related? Can anybody help? My apologies if this is off > topic. > > Volker > > > -- > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/