The build is making a bad cvs assumption about cvs downloads:
e.g. jboss-3.2 branch, with projects checked out using eclipse:
synchronize.hibernate: [cvs] Using cvs passfile: /home/ejort/.cvspass [cvs] cvs update: Unknown method (`extssh') in CVSROOT. [cvs] cvs update: in directory .: [cvs] cvs update: ignoring CVS/Root because it does not contain a valid root. [cvs] cvs update: No CVSROOT specified! Please use the `-d' option [cvs] cvs [update aborted]: or set the CVSROOT environment variable.