On Mon, 14 Oct 2013 11:09:54 +0200 Benjamin Thaut <c...@benjamin-thaut.de> wrote: > > I found it: src\rt\minit.obj is corrupt. When I copy the file from > the 2.064 beta package it builds sucessfully. Might have to do > something with the line ending settings in git. > > Maybe a .gitattributes file setting *.obj to binary should be added > to the druntime repository to prevent issues like this. >
Automatic line ending conversions need to be nuked from existence. Git's EOL-conversion "feature" should never have existed in the first place. I can only imagine it happened because some early Git developer must have thought Windows was still stuck in 1991. Or maybe they thought Windows developers write code in notepad. *Any* Git installation that has any form of EOL-conversions enabled is absolutely in error and will eventually just breed problems. And any sane editor will respect the line endings of any file it opens, if it doesn't it's a POS and needs to be fixed/replaced. So there should never be any problem, and never be any need for any of Git's "helpful" automatic data butchering. (Same goes for FTP, but at least FTP has an excuse: It existed back when there *was* such as thing as "Unix line endings" and "Windows line endings".)
