[tlbuild] Building failure[xindy]

[Reinhard Kotucha]

On 18 May 2010 Ken Brown wrote:

 > On 5/18/2010 8:49 AM, Peter Breitenlohner wrote:
 > > 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?
 > 
 > Hi Peter,
 > 
 > Cygwin programs are expected to produce unix line endings.  The clisp 
 > build must do something special (and wrong, IMHO) to get 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?
 > 
 > Piping the output through cat doesn't help.  But there's a utility 
 > called dos2unix that strips carriage returns.  I don't know how portable 
 > that is.  Is it available on all unix-like systems?  I just checked that 
 > it exists on a RedHat linux system that I have access to.

Try sed(1):

   sed -e 's/^M//g'

You can insert the ^M in Emacs by typing C-q C-m.

Regards,
  Reinhard

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