Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] problems building on mac os x

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From: Gilbert Ramirez <gram@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2001 17:40:54 -0600
On Fri, 07 Dec 2001 17:36:57 Guy Harris wrote:
> > Hmm. If I do a clean 'cvs checkout ethereal', config.guess is *not*
> > checked out. There's something strange about config.guess's state in
> > CVS.
> 
> It's RCS file is in the "Attic" subdirectory, but it's not in the "dead"
> state.  That's the downside of state information stored in two places
> that can't be simultaneously updated atomically....
> 
> We could try doing a "cvs delete" on it - which may require that we
> temporarily move it out of the attic - if it's truly not supposed to be
> in the CVS tree.
> 

Why don't we move it out of Attic, then update both config.guess
and config.sub with new versions. Keeping checked-in versions of both
will probably help maintain a consistent (consistently good, hopefully)
Ethereal distribution.

--gilbert