binutils for arm-wince-pe build broken on cygwin?

[Alan Modra]

On Tue, Apr 04, 2006 at 12:30:43AM +0100, Pedro Alves wrote:
> Pedro Alves wrote:
> >Alan Modra wrote:
> >>On Fri, Mar 31, 2006 at 09:36:54PM +0100, Pedro Alves wrote:
> >> 
> >>>"/* Script for ld -Ur: link w/out relocation, do create constructors 
> >>>*/\n\
> >>>
> >>>\n\
> >>>OUTPUT_FORMAT(pe-arm-little)
> >>>\n\
> >>>
> >>>\n\
> >>>
> >>>\n\
> >>>SEARCH_DIR(\"/cygdrive/d/gcc/wince/arm-wince-pe/lib\");
> >>>\n\
> >>><snip>
> >>>---------------------------------
> >>>Notice the extra empty lines without a continuation escape. Looking 
> >>>at a tree I have build a few months ago, I see that
> >>>those empty newlines should not be there.
> >>>I think earmpe.c is build from pe.em by genscripts.sh.
> >>>    
> >>
> >>Yes, and the part you show above comes from ldscripts/armpe.xu, itself a
> >>generated file.  I would guess armpe.xu has blank lines too, possibly
> >>caused by a broken sed.
> >>
> >>  
> >
> >You are right. Thanks for the tip. Downgrading to sed 4.1.4 fixed the
> >problem.
> >I am now confirming if the problem shows up also in i686-pc-cygwin 
> >target.
> >Has anyone stumbled on a similar problem yet?
> >
> A little late, but...
> Confirmed. I am having the same problem for i686-pc-cygwin.
> Found this interesting thread at cygwin's mailing list
> http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-02/msg00846.html

Yes, binutils uses sed -e '/^ *$/d' to delete blank lines.  If you have
somehow managed to put CR LF line ending on files in your source tree,
then you'll run into trouble using the new sed.

-- 
Alan Modra
IBM OzLabs - Linux Technology Centre