Re: [ECOS] cannot find config.sub

[Jonathan Larmour <jlarmour at redhat dot co dot uk>]

Kenneth Porter wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 16 Apr 2000 18:09:09 CDT, Rosimildo daSilva wrote:
> 
> > I bet you it is some "CRLF" --> "LF" cleanup. CygWin is
> > totally crazy on this regard.
> >
> > Try to cleanup the files that you changed, specially
> > configuration files, using some utility such as
> > dos2unix.exe.
> >
> > I usually use this:
> >
> >   find -mtime -1 -type f -exec dos2unix {} \;
> 
> Did this ever get resolved? I finally got around to installing 1.3.1
> and ran into this one, as there's no hint about this on the PPC install
> page. Fortunately I had my archive of the mailing list and quickly
> found this thread.
> 
> As you may recall, eCos recommends text mode mounts, but  Cygwin 1
> defaults to binary mounts, and some problem in the gcc patch process
> results in the 14 patched files being in DOS mode. Alas, dos2unix isn't
> part of Cygwin, so I had to go track down a copy and install it, and
> then add the above find command right after the patch command in the
> installation instructions. Right now I'm waiting for powerpc-eabi-gcc
> to finish building.

Yeah, I added something to the windows install instructions to take account
of this. Instead of running patch directly, instead run

tr -d '\r' < patchfile | patch -p0

to apply the patch. This works around the problem.

Jifl
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