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Re: Problems building binutils cvs trunk on i686-pc-mingw32
- From: Christian Joensson <christian dot joensson at gmail dot com>
- To: "Aaron W. LaFramboise" <aaron98wiridge9 at aaronwl dot com>
- Cc: Brian Dessent <brian at dessent dot net>, binutils <binutils at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2005 06:57:09 +0200
- Subject: Re: Problems building binutils cvs trunk on i686-pc-mingw32
- References: <5460e333050613163548b5fc7d@mail.gmail.com> <42AE2C9C.B6E4114@dessent.net> <42AE3263.7030008@aaronwl.com>
- Reply-to: Christian Joensson <christian dot joensson at gmail dot com>
On 6/14/05, Aaron W. LaFramboise <aaron98wiridge9@aaronwl.com> wrote:
> Brian Dessent wrote:
>
> > Christian Joensson wrote:
> >
> >> section mapping'.ss reference to nonexistent node `mmo
> >> a New Hash Table Type'.ference to nonexistent node `Deriving
> >>makeinfo: Removing output file `../../../src/bfd/doc/bfd.info' due to
> >>errors; use --force to preserve.
> >
> > The nature of this error (the fact that it wraps like that) seems to
> > indicate that you have stray CRs (dos line endings) in your sources.
> > You should probably use a binary mount and/or make sure to use Cygwin's
> > tar (as opposed to something like winzip) so that you don't get CRLF
> > line endings. I don't know about the other errors.
>
> Yes. A makeinfo that is configured to use Unix-style LF line endings
> rather than Windows-style CRLF line endings causes this problem. You
> need a i686-pc-mingw32 targetted texinfo/makeinfo for this to work
> correctly. If you're using a Cygwin one, you might be able to get it to
> work by playing with it a little bit, as Brian describes. To just make
> it work for now, manually rebuild the file with --force and restart the
> build.
right... my fault for using a cvs tree from under cygwin...
> The other errors appear to just be harmless rot.
true, however, it'd be nice to have them clean up... :)
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Cheers,
/ChJ