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Re: Problem compiling cygwin1.dll from CVS


On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 12:15:15PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
>On Thu, 15 Jan 2004, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> Nope.  I routinely build cygwin with text mode mounts with no problems
>> at all.  I don't know why you were having problems but we're certainly
>> not going to document a bug.
>
>This is not a text mode mount problem.  This is a problem of downloading
>files in text mode, and then transferring them over to a binary mount
>(without appropriate conversion), so you get CRLF files on binary mounts.
>Which is a peculiar (and, IIUC, unsupported) mode of operation.  FWIW, I
>agree with CGF - this doesn't merit documenting.  It's in the archives,
>anyway.

What probably needs documenting is what the letters in "FAQ" stand for.
No, wait.  That's probably there already.
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