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)? (Yikes!) or is there a global setting that I can use so that I > don't have to do that. There are no CRs anywhere in the source code tarballs. If you are seeing any, they are a result of the method you used to unpack them locally. This means you either didn't choose binary mode for your mounts or you used a non-Cygwin tool such as Winzip to unpack the tarballs. In either case, don't do that. There should never be a need to convert anything. Also, you'll need to use a Cygwin snapshot to build gcc otherwise you'll run into <http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2007-03/msg00948.html> which has been fixed for some time, but the last Cygwin release was a while ago. Brian
