[project @ 2003-11-21 09:09:09 by simonpj]

[ghc-hetmet.git] / docs / building / building.sgml

diff --git a/docs/building/building.sgml b/docs/building/building.sgml
index 111e85f..ae21792 100644 (file)
--- a/docs/building/building.sgml
+++ b/docs/building/building.sgml
@@ -137,6 +137,12 @@
          <listitem>
            <para>Set your <literal>$CVSROOT</literal> environment variable to
             <literal>:pserver:anoncvs@glass.cse.ogi.edu:/cvs</literal></para>
+           <para>If you set <literal>$CVSROOT</literal> in a shell script, be sure not to
+             have any trailing spaces on that line, otherwise CVS will respond with 
+             a perplexing message like
+             <programlisting>
+               /cvs : no such repository
+         </programlisting></para>
          </listitem>
          <listitem>
             <para>Run the command</para>