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Why does building the CVS code fail?

April 26, 2017building code CVS fail

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Why does building the CVS code fail?

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One of the primary reasons is that a command line version of CVS is not installed. If you see a message about a cvs failure, that is probably the reason. Type cvs at a command prompt. You should see error messages from CVS. If you get a message from the system that CVS isn’t found, it isn’t properly installed, or you need to set up a path to it for your shell. If you see a message about missing files in the thirdparty directory, you probably tried to build without command line CVS. This creates a directory called thirdparty, but CVS can’t put the necessary files in it. The build script assumes the files are there if the thirdparty directory exists, so the build fails. Delete the thirdparty directory, make sure command line CVS is working and try build again.