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#47 Use unix line endings on Cygwin

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2017-12-05
2017-03-21
Ken Brown
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I've been building with the attached patch on Cygwin for a long time, mostly for aesthetic reasons. (My build logs would be full of stray ^M characters otherwise.) Out of curiosity, I just tried building without the patch, and the build failed because at least one ^M got into a file name:

checking for CLISP libdir... configure: error: missing modules.c clisp.h in '/home/kbrown/src/cygclisp/clisp-2.49-1.20170321hg15864.x86_64/build/"^Mlinkkit'

[Note: I typed a literal circumflex followed by M above so that the ^M would be visible.]

So the patch is actually necessary, not just for aesthetics.

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  • Sam Steingold

    Sam Steingold - 2017-03-21
    • assigned_to: Bruno Haible
    • Group: -->
     
  • Sam Steingold

    Sam Steingold - 2017-03-21

    this boils does to the question of whether cygwin is unix or dos. :-)

     
  • Sam Steingold

    Sam Steingold - 2017-12-05
    • status: open --> closed-accepted
    • assigned_to: Bruno Haible --> Sam Steingold
     

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