From: cgf AT bbc DOT com (Christopher Faylor)
Subject: Re: building cygnus compatible perl
8 Jan 1998 12:53:11 -0800
Message-ID: <EMH1Gv.10o.cygnus.gnu-win32@bbc.com>
References: <34B43DDB DOT 4487EB71 AT synopsys DOT com>
Reply-To: cgf AT bbc DOT com
To: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com

In article <34B43DDB DOT 4487EB71 AT synopsys DOT com>,
B. Elizabeth Trojan <lizt AT synopsys DOT com> wrote:
>The latest perl patch file has a bunch of files with ^M characters
>at the end of each line. Before attempting to build perl with the patch
>you will need to search for files with ^M and delete the ^M characters.

No.  No it doesn't.  My latest perl patch file does not have ^M characters
in it.

The perl distribution and perl patch file should be extracted to a
directory that is mounted "binary".  This will cause the files to be
created without ^Ms in them.
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