Hi Dave,
Dave Korn-9 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. > My gosh, that's it! I Indeed extracted with WinZip... I WAS a bit suspicious, and looked in WinZip for an option like "Output text files in DOS format" or so that I could UNcheck, but having not found it, I thought WinZip would not be so intrusive as to modify the files that were compressed... Well, I never said Win was perfect, did I? ;-) That being said, it's still sort of beyond me why all [CR][LF]s would be converted ok... except the ones I reported. Dave Korn-9 wrote: > > (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 > Ok, maybe Eric actually likes being called "people"... my fault then. Many thanks & Merry Christmas, Emanuel -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Sorry-%22people%22-%28NOT-MY-taxonomy%21%21%29%2C-but-igncr-IS-flawed-tp32989786p32995016.html Sent from the Cygwin list mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- 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
