Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2000 18:25:03 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: Cygwin Subject: Re: configure dies a horrible death Message-ID: <20001204182503.C28620@redhat.com> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: Cygwin References: <20001204203948.9541.qmail@web117.yahoomail.com> <20001204181002.C14648@pentek.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.11i In-Reply-To: <20001204181002.C14648@pentek.com>; from charles@pentek.com on Mon, Dec 04, 2000 at 06:10:02PM -0500 On Mon, Dec 04, 2000 at 06:10:02PM -0500, Charles Krug wrote: >On Mon, Dec 04, 2000 at 12:39:48PM -0800, Earnie Boyd wrote: >> It appears you've made a switch from text mode to binary mode. Although, >> package maintainers have gone to extra trouble to make sure that files that >> \r\n line endings can be read by shells and other programs, not all can yet. >> My guess to your problem is that you've \r\n line endings on binary mounts. > >Nope. > >I umounted the offending directories, then remounted them so they're now >binary. I then wiped the configure directory and unpacked the source >archive again. Configure still wasn't happy. Sh was failing >periodically saying it couldn't find a dll. > >I'll post the error messages next time I see them. This is not an optional requirement. I'm surprised that no one has asked for this already. Phrases like "horrible death" are probably quite viscerally satisfying but they provide absolutely no information towards attempting to solve problems. I'm surprised by how many times I have to repeat this (to me) obvious fact but then, as I've noticed before, I'm easily surprised. cgf -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com