Re: [lcd4linux] How to get started with lcd4linux

[Michael R. <re...@eu...>]

Hi Robert,

> I tried using the command line
> cvs client but kept running into password prompts. sf.net offers anon  
> access but I couldn't quite work that out so...

just press <Enter> on the password prompt. I think this should be
documented quite well in the wiki, download section.

> For the sake of this  
> list and future googlers here is what I did:
> 
> rsync -av rsync://lcd4linux.cvs.sourceforge.net/cvsroot/lcd4linux/* .

Well, I don't think this was a good ideas... this way you've been
mirroring the whole CVS repository...

> This worked out much better for me than CVS, and I got all of the  
> files in the repo without complaint, except... All files were  
> downloaded with ',v' appended to the filenames!  So here is the one- 
> liner I used to deal with that:
> 
> perl -e 'foreach $old (glob "*,v"){$new = $old, $new =~ s/,v 
> $//;rename $old, $new;}'

these ',v' files are versioned files from the repository. YOu shall not
try to compile'em!



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