Sven Panne
Further investigation show that the problematic commit is probably:
date: 2006-08-10 19:31:47 +0200; author: ross; state: Exp; split off generation of the compatibility libraries into tools/make_oldlib
If I see this correctly, tools/make_oldlib was introduced then, and removed a few months later:
date: 2006-11-24 14:12:16 +0100; author: ross; state: dead; lines: +0 -0; remove unused script
I am not sure why this should be a problem, but playing around with tailor's start-revision strongly suggests this.
Hmm, when I 'CVS update' to any date between those two commits, my repo does not contain tools/make_oldlib! Perhaps the CVS Attic has been disturbed, such that the file no longer exists in any revision? That might certainly confuse tailor. Regards, Malcolm