Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com X-Authentication-Warning: slinky.cs.nyu.edu: pechtcha owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2004 12:15:15 -0500 (EST) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Problem compiling cygwin1.dll from CVS In-Reply-To: <20040115165423.GC14681@redhat.com> Message-ID: References: <1074109551.959.19.camel@taz.graycell.biz> <20040115165423.GC14681@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Thu, 15 Jan 2004, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 11:52:51AM +0100, Gabriel SOUBIES wrote: > >I finally managed to re-build Cygwin, and your hint helped me a lot! > >The problem was that i was downloading the sources using Cygwin's CVS > >on a machine where Cygwin had been installed in NT mode (not by me). > >Then I burned the sources and tried to compile on my machine, where > >Cygwin is installed in Unix mode. I had Cygwin reinstalled in Unix > >mode on the machine I used for downloading and that solved everything. > >Maybe a note about this problem could be added to the FAQ page named > >"How do I rebuild the tools on my NT box?" ... > > Nope. I routinely build cygwin with text mode mounts with no problems > at all. I don't know why you were having problems but we're certainly > not going to document a bug. > > cgf This is not a text mode mount problem. This is a problem of downloading files in text mode, and then transferring them over to a binary mount (without appropriate conversion), so you get CRLF files on binary mounts. Which is a peculiar (and, IIUC, unsupported) mode of operation. FWIW, I agree with CGF - this doesn't merit documenting. It's in the archives, anyway. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor@watson.ibm.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster." -- Patrick Naughton -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/