Section 2.11. Exporting and Building Projects

2.11. Exporting and Building Projects

When you're ready to compile and test a program, to send a book to an editor, or to post a web site to the server, you will want a copy of the project that doesn't have the CVS administrative files. You could use cvs checkout and remove the CVS subdirectories, but that's tedious and unnecessary. Use cvs export instead. It works exactly the same as checkout, but doesn't create the administrative files necessary for a sandbox.

If you need to compile a program, distribute the project's files, or otherwise modify the results of the export, I recommend using a build tool such as make on the exported project. Unfortunately, the use of make is beyond the scope of this book, but I recommend the article "Introduction to Make" at http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2002/01/31/make_intro.html.