[tlbuild] Building failure[xindy]

[Ken Brown]

On 5/18/2010 9:19 PM, Ken Brown wrote:
> On 5/18/2010 11:08 AM, Peter Breitenlohner wrote:
>> On Tue, 18 May 2010, Reinhard Kotucha wrote:
>>
>>> Try sed(1):
>>>
>>> sed -e 's/^M//g'
>>>
>>> You can insert the ^M in Emacs by typing C-q C-m.
>>
>> If at all possible, I'd like to avoid having control characters in
>> configure.ac (and configure). If nothing simpler works, I'd rather use
>> tr -d '\r'
>
> Hi Peter,
>
> The problem about the cygwin build of clisp using dos line endings turns
> out to be well known. It was discussed on the cygwin list about 3 years
> ago, starting at
>
> http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2007-01/msg00052.html
>
> The short version is that a patch was proposed to change to unix line
> endings, and it was rejected by the clisp developers. I could apply this
> patch (which would then have to be documented in utils/README), but
> maybe it's simpler to use tr -d '\r' in the xindy build. It's up to you.

Just to finish off this thread in case someone finds it useful in the 
future, I'm attaching the patch to make clisp use unix line endings by 
default on cygwin.

Ken
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