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
