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Subject: RE: Help compiling gcc 4.2.0
Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2007 01:03:40 +0100
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On 22 June 2007 18:56, Gary Johnson wrote:

> On 2007-06-22, Dave Korn wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> I agree with the advice to use tar, but WinZip does have an option
> to fix this behavior. 


  It still won't get links and perms right, though.  Don't use winzip.



    cheers,
      DaveK
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