Igncr ineffective?

2011-12-15 Thread manu0507
Hello, I'm running Cygwin 1.7.9-1 on Win7-64, with "GNU bash, version 4.1.10(4)-release (i686-pc-cygwin)". When executing a script (a gdb build script) with CR/LF line ends, bash reports errors on "unusual" lines of the script, even with igncr set. Here is an example with the script "configure":

Sorry "people" (NOT MY taxonomy!!), but igncr IS flawed

2011-12-16 Thread manu0507
Hi all, Notwithstanding the completely preposterous "reply" by Eric Blake (more of an idiotic acrimony, actually) to my previous post (see http://old.nabble.com/Igncr-ineffective--tt32983438.html ), there does seem to be a problem in dealing with Win's CR/LF line endings in "unusual" lines, at le

Re: Sorry "people" (NOT MY taxonomy!!), but igncr IS flawed

2011-12-17 Thread manu0507
it stops with Manu@Holland /cygdrive/d/Installs/gdb_7_3_1/gdb-7.3.1 $ ./configure ./configure: line 14: $'\r': command not found ./configure: line 29: syntax error near unexpected token `newline' '/configure: line 29: ` ;; Many thanks and Merry Christmas, Emanuel Jere

Re: Sorry "people" (NOT MY taxonomy!!), but igncr IS flawed

2011-12-17 Thread manu0507
rote: >>On 12/16/2011 11:13 PM, manu0507 wrote: >>>Notwithstanding the completely preposterous "reply" by Eric Blake (more >>>of an idiotic acrimony, actually) to my previous post (see >>>http://old.nabble.com/Igncr-ineffective--tt32983438.html ), there do

Apparently solved! (Re: Sorry "people" (NOT MY taxonomy!!), but igncr IS flawed)

2011-12-17 Thread manu0507
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