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Re: cvs can't parse its arguments -- known issue?
- From: "George William Smith" <george_william_smith at yahoo dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2002 19:31:50 -0000
- Subject: Re: cvs can't parse its arguments -- known issue?
- References: <87r8e5b2i0.fsf@squeaker.lickey.com>
Check your .cvsrc, you may have some flags there that CVS doesn't support.
G
"Matt Armstrong" <matt@lickey.com> wrote in message
87r8e5b2i0.fsf@squeaker.lickey.com">news:87r8e5b2i0.fsf@squeaker.lickey.com...
> I'm seeing some very odd behavior from cvs and I wonder if others are
> seeing it too.
>
> No matter what args I pass it, cvs tells me it is an invalid option --
> even the --help-options arg. All other cygwin stuff seems to be
> functioning well.
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> % cvs -d :pserver:gnus@cvs.gnus.org:/usr/local/cvsroot login
> cvs: invalid option --
> Usage: cvs [cvs-options] command [command-options-and-arguments]
> where cvs-options are -q, -n, etc.
> (specify --help-options for a list of options)
> where command is add, admin, etc.
> (specify --help-commands for a list of commands
> or --help-synonyms for a list of command synonyms)
> where command-options-and-arguments depend on the specific command
> (specify -H followed by a command name for command-specific help)
> Specify --help to receive this message
>
> The Concurrent Versions System (CVS) is a tool for version control.
> For CVS updates and additional information, see
> the CVS home page at http://www.cvshome.org/ or
> Pascal Molli's CVS site at
> http://www.loria.fr/~molli/cvs-index.html
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> I just installed CVS via the cygwin setup utility and have a recently
> upgraded installation (cygcheck below).
>
>
> --=-=-=
>
>
> Cygwin Win95/NT Configuration Diagnostics
> Current System Time: Fri Nov 01 10:45:22 2002
>
> Windows 2000 Professional Ver 5.0 Build 2195 Service Pack 3
>
> Path: C:\cygwin\bin
> c:\WINNT\system32
> c:\WINNT
> c:\WINNT\System32\Wbem
>
> SysDir: C:\WINNT\System32
> WinDir: C:\WINNT
>
> HOME = `c:\home'
> PWD = `/cygdrive/c/home'
> USER = `maarmstr'
>
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> CHECK_LEAK_LESS_OFTEN = `100'
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> COMPUTERNAME = `MAARMSTR'
> COMSPEC = `C:\WINNT\system32\cmd.exe'
> EDITOR = `vim'
> EMAIL = `matt.armstrong@openwave.com'
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Studio\VC98\atl\include;C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual
Studio\VC98\mfc\include;C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual
Studio\VC98\include'
> LESS = `-Q'
> LIB = `C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\VC98\mfc\lib;C:\Program
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`catalog:/etc/sgml/catalog:/usr/lib/sgml/catalog:/usr/local/lib/sgml/catalog
:/cygdrive/c/home/dtd/catalog'
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> c: hd NTFS 11502Mb 62% CP CS UN PA FC OPENWAVE
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binmode
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> DLL epoch: 19
> DLL bad signal mask: 19005
> DLL old termios: 5
> DLL malloc env: 28
> API major: 0
> API minor: 62
> Shared data: 3
> DLL identifier: cygwin1
> Mount registry: 2
> Cygnus registry name: Cygnus Solutions
> Cygwin registry name: Cygwin
> Program options name: Program Options
> Cygwin mount registry name: mounts v2
> Cygdrive flags: cygdrive flags
> Cygdrive prefix: cygdrive prefix
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> Build date: Thu Oct 24 10:48:11 EDT 2002
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