Hi Bernd, Bernd Warken wrote on Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at 05:55:43PM +0200: > Werner Lemberg wrote: >> Bernd Warken wrote:
>>> I ran `autoconf'. There was a subdirectory `autom4te.cache/' >>> created. First I just deleted it. >> This directory and its contents is *always* intermediate! It just >> speeds up the execution of the autoconf tools. Actually, the >> `configure' script itself shouldn't be stored in the repository but >> generated during a `make tarball' call... >> >> Please remove it again. > I cannot get it away. Once you added a directory to a CVS *repository*, you cannot delete it ever again. Well, if somebody has a shell account on the CVS server, s/he can delete the directory from the repository using rm(1) -rf and fix up the parent CVS metadata by hand, the implication being that intermediate repository states that *did* contain the directory cannot be checked out any longer as they were at the time. Better know what you are doing... > I tried it about 10-times. But each update > of groff CVS on my computer adds each time another subdirectory > `autom4te.cache/'. Read the cvs(1) manual. That's what the -P option is for. It prunes empty directories from the checkout area. You may also wish to consider the -d option. Yours, Ingo
