[tlbuild] Building failure[xindy]

[Peter Breitenlohner]

On Tue, 18 May 2010, Ken Brown wrote:

> Thanks for the explanation, Peter.  So it seems that the real problem is that 
> clisp (as built OOTB on Cygwin) outputs DOS line endings.  ...

Hi Ken,

are cygwin programs generally expected to produce unix or dos line endings?

> ....  I just took a look 
> at your most recent change (r18328), and I think the problem is back.  I 
> didn't try to build texlive, but I tested line 86 of configure.ac, and the 
> variable LISP_RUN contains a spurious carriage return.

That looks bad and the build will probably fail.  Piping the output from
clisp through cat (or something similar) should strip the carriage return. 
Could you test this?

Regards
Peter