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

[Dave Korn <dave dot korn dot cygwin at gmail dot com>]

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.

  (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

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