X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com
X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.1 required=5.0	tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,FREEMAIL_FROM,TW_VF,TW_XV
X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org
Message-ID: <4EECBD8C.2010409@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2011 16:04:28 +0000
From: Dave Korn <dave DOT korn DOT cygwin AT gmail DOT com>
User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (Windows/20080914)
MIME-Version: 1.0
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: Sorry "people" (NOT MY taxonomy!!), but igncr IS flawed
References: <32989786 DOT post AT talk DOT nabble DOT com> <4EEC34F4 DOT 9090409 AT bopp DOT net> <32994383 DOT post AT talk DOT nabble DOT com>
In-Reply-To: <32994383.post@talk.nabble.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-IsSubscribed: yes
Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm
List-Id: <cygwin.cygwin.com>
List-Subscribe: <mailto:cygwin-subscribe AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Archive: <http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/>
List-Post: <mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Help: <mailto:cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com>, <http://sourceware.org/ml/#faqs>
Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com
Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com

On 17/12/2011 15:50, manu0507 wrote:

> - the script causing trouble comes in the GNU gdb distribution
> gdb-7.3.1.tar.gz

  Hah!  I know what's happened: you used a windows program such as winzip or
similar to unpack the archive, and it's gone and "helpfully" munged all the
line endings for you.  Use 'tar xvfz gdb-7.3.1.tar.gz' at the Cygwin shell
command-line and you'll get a correctly unpacked version.  (There definitely
aren't CRLFs in the upstream release of the configure scripts.)  Windows
GUI-based archivers are well known for causing this problem.

  (Also, if you think that Eric's reply was "acrimonious", you're just having
some sort of using-language-in-different-ways communication problem.  I saw it
earlier and it seemed perfectly polite and proper to me, I honestly can't see
what about it would offend you.)

    cheers,
      DaveK

--
Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html
FAQ:                   http://cygwin.com/faq/
Documentation:         http://cygwin.com/docs.html
Unsubscribe info:      http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple