In message <200302150151.h1F1pMu05909@mirage.ceres.dti.ne.jp>, Izumi Tsutsui wr
ites:
>In article <Pine.OSX.4.53.0302141127590.538@lesleyanne.i8u.org>
>htodd@twofifty.com wrote:
>
>> > obj ===> gnu/usr.bin/grep/grep
>> > /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/grep/grep/obj -> /usr/obj/gnu/usr.bin/grep/grep
>> > mkdir: /usr/obj/gnu/usr.bin/grep/grep: Not a directory
>> > *** Error code 1
>> 
>> I've gotten that before: you need to delete or move the file and make the
>> directory (at least I did). It was some oddness due to a new version of
>> grep.
>
>I think the right way is "make cleandir" _before_ "cvs update".

I don't think so -- the problem was in /usr/obj, ande I was doing the 
update in /usr/src.

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