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Subject: RE: Help compiling gcc 4.2.0
Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2007 10:14:24 +0100
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On 21 June 2007 21:47, Lee Rhodes wrote:


> I am struggling with the infamous unix/dos end-of-line '\r\n' vs '\n'
> incompatibilities.  It seems that no matter what shell I use (bash, sh,
> Cygwin, rxvt, dos) that the gnu make utility throws errors when it sees the
> '\r' CR character.
> 
>   Do I have to convert ALL the downloaded files into the unix format
> (dos2unix)? 

  Nope, what you have to do is you have to /not/ use winzip to unpack the
archives.  Use cygwin's command-line tar utility.


    cheers,
      DaveK
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