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Re: [patch] Build arm-elf-gdb on mingw host
- From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at false dot org>
- To: gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
- Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2006 12:58:02 -0400
- Subject: Re: [patch] Build arm-elf-gdb on mingw host
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On Mon, Apr 10, 2006 at 12:51:25PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> >> Ditto. I just checked and I didn't do this in earlier cygwin versions
> >> but I did rectify at this at some point this year so that texinfo now
> >> should be line-ending agnostic on cygwin.
> >
> >Hi Chris,
> >
> >Are you sure?
>
> That was six months ago. If I had to guess, I'd guess that I wasn't
> talking about a cygwin update since the cygwin \r\n handling hasn't
> changed in years, AFAIK. I was probably talking about a texinfo.
> Texinfo links with the cygwin automode.o file, which means that it
> should, by default, accept \r\n input and spit out \n.
Right - sorry, I realized you meant a Texinfo package update. As of
4.8-1, a MinGW chew (which produces \r\n) causes texinfo to choke, but
a Cygwin chew (which produces \n) does not.
--
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery