X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,FREEMAIL_ENVFROM_END_DIGIT,FREEMAIL_FROM,TW_VF,TW_XV X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <4EECBD8C.2010409@gmail.com> 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> <4EECBD8C DOT 2010409 AT gmail DOT com> Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2011 11:57:45 -0500 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Sorry "people" (NOT MY taxonomy!!), but igncr IS flawed From: Lee To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , 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 12/17/11, Dave Korn wrote: > 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. 7-Zip (from sourceforge) also works for unpacking tar.gz files for use with Cygwin. > (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.) +1 Lee -- 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