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I'm running Mac OS X 10.6.8, and I'm trying to compile a software package originally developed for Linux.

The code is under development and uses a CVS repository and is attempting to access /srv/cvs/CVSROOT/history, but I don't have a /srv directory.

Is there a way I could fix this?

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Depending on the software, there may be a way to change the location of the CVS repository. That might be a configure flag or an environment variable.

But if not, you can just create the directory.

sudo mkdir -p /srv/cvs
sudo chown USER /srv/cvs

Replace USER with whatever user needs to own the repository. Then, as that user, initialize the CVS repository like this

sudo su USER -c "CVSROOT=/srv/cvs cvs init"
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