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Web Access to OpenDX CVS
CVS Access to OpenDX source
How to build OpenDX source from cvs

Web Access to OpenDX CVS

For persons unable to access our cvs due to firewalls, cvs is tarred nightly and placed at http://opendx.watson.ibm.com/dx/tars Get both dx(tardate).tar.gz and cvs_add.tar.gz .

The OpenDX cvs tree can be browsed via CVSWeb here.

cvs access to OpenDX CVS

To access the OpenDX CVS, submit the following commands from a CVS client:

  1. cvs -d :pserver:anoncvs@opendx.watson.ibm.com:/src/master login
  2. cvs -d :pserver:anoncvs@opendx.watson.ibm.com:/src/master checkout module
  3. cvs -d :pserver:anoncvs@opendx.watson.ibm.com:/src/master logout
    or, from the working directory: cvs logout

The CVS login command saves login information in a file in your home directory so that future CVS commands (performed within the checked-out working directory) don't require the -d option.

The anonymous, read-only username is anoncvs. The password is also anoncvs.

The possible values for module are dx (OpenDX codebase), and dxsamples (OpenDX samples).

Once you've logged in, you can use the CVS checkout and update commands to keep your working directory (your checked-out copy of the files) up-to-date. For more information on CVS check out the documentation on the Cyclic home page.

Thanks to Ken Coar for this CVS summary.

Building OpenDX from CVS

The source in cvs does not contain certain built files (e.g. configure) that are present in tarball distributions. The source from cvs is buildable by the following sequence of commands issued in the dx source directory:

aclocal
autoheader
autoconf
automake ("automake --include-deps" for non-gcc compilers)
./configure
make
make install