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Date:	Tue, 31 Jul 2001 06:59:08 -0400
From:	Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: GCC 3.0 for i686-pc-cygwin target, bootstrap fails
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In-Reply-To:	<0d4b01c11989$dbdfb650$2101bf0a@houston.rr.com>; from cjoy@houston.rr.com on Tue, Jul 31, 2001 at 01:27:20AM -0500

On Tue, Jul 31, 2001 at 01:27:20AM -0500, Corwin Joy wrote:
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Di-an Jan" <dianj AT OCF DOT Berkeley DOT EDU>
>To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>; <gcc AT gnu DOT org>
>Cc: <cjoy AT houston DOT rr DOT com>; <sjp_cmp AT yahoo DOT co DOT uk>
>Sent: Monday, July 30, 2001 11:54 PM
>Subject: Re: GCC 3.0 for i686-pc-cygwin target, bootstrap fails
>
>
>> > ../../gcc-3.0/gcc/config/i386/i386.md:289: unknown rtx
>> > code 'define_asm_attributes
>>
><...snip..>
>> > Anyway, the problem seems to have something to do with carriage return
>> > versus line-feed under Cygwin.
><...snip..>
>> I ran into the same. The problem is that '\r' is not recognized as white
>> space in various parts of "rtl.c". Specifically, "read_name" thinks '\r'
>> is a part of the name.
>>
>> A better fix is probably to put the sources under a directory mounted
>> textmode (or change the mount to binmode if the files are already
>> extracted). If the directory is set for binmode, Cygwin's "tar" does not
>> add extra '\r' but external programs such as WinZip might, and "rtl.c"
>> don't handle it well enough.
>
>This would likely be what bit me.  As someone more conversant with NT than
>Cygwin I just used WinZip to uncompress the distribution file which may have
>added the extra '\r'.
>
>> I think a note should be added to the "Host/target specific installation
>> notes" page that either the sources should be extracted with Cygwin "tar"
>> or extracted to a directory mounted textmode.
>>
>> A strong warning should also be added to the Cygwin User's Guide that
>> binmode cannot maintain Unix newline conventions if non-Cygwin programs
>> such as WinZip are used, and some programs will fail.

So much for the idea of a "strong warning...[about] non-Cygwin programs".

We already warn against using WinZip in the documentation but...

cgf

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