On Tue, 15 Feb 2011, Paul Bowyer wrote:
< Leo:
<
< I've been following the thread "[Maxima] build-index, cl-ppcre and github" and
< I would like to experiment a little.
<
< You mentioned in one of your posts that you built GCL from HEAD (which I
< assumed to mean that you used 'git') and I wonder if you would provide a brief
< tutorial on the steps necessary to use 'git' to retrieve GCL? I have already
< done this successfully using CVS to retrieve gcl-2.6.8pre, but I would like to
< know how to achieve it using 'git'.
Hi Paul,
I build gcl from HEAD on the savannah cvs repository. No need for git,
although you can use the git cvsimport command to clone the cvs repo as
a git repo, and you can even pull updates from the cvs repo into your
git clone, provided you don't fiddle with the branches (i.e. do all your
hacking on new branches). The manpage explains this better than I can.
<
< I'm curious to see if I can successfully build maxima from HEAD also (using
< 'git' and your repository), but I wanted start with GCL first to see if I can
< do that properly.
If I can help, please do ask.
Leo
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