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RE: Help compiling gcc 4.2.0
On 22 June 2007 18:56, Gary Johnson wrote:
> On 2007-06-22, Dave Korn wrote:
>> On 21 June 2007 21:47, Lee Rhodes wrote:
>>
>>
>>> I am struggling with the infamous unix/dos end-of-line '\r\n' vs '\n'
>>> incompatibilities. It seems that no matter what shell I use (bash, sh,
>>> Cygwin, rxvt, dos) that the gnu make utility throws errors when it sees
>>> the '\r' CR character.
>>>
>>> Do I have to convert ALL the downloaded files into the unix format
>>> (dos2unix)?
>>
>> Nope, what you have to do is you have to /not/ use winzip to unpack the
>> archives. Use cygwin's command-line tar utility.
>
> I agree with the advice to use tar, but WinZip does have an option
> to fix this behavior.
It still won't get links and perms right, though. Don't use winzip.
cheers,
DaveK
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