On 12/17/2010 02:34 PM, Andreas Färber wrote:
Fix this by removing any \r at end of line.
Why isn't cygwin (or whatever you're using) removing it?
I believe Cygwin had an option to choose the line ending style once
during setup. By default it uses Unix-style line endings.
If someone edits source files in some Windows editor, the above issue
seems likely.
Hmm, MSYS is more problematic: the manual says "In the MSYS environment
under Windows, `gawk' automatically uses binary mode for reading and
writing files. Thus there is no need to use the `BINMODE' variable.
This can cause problems with other Unix-like components that have been
ported to Windows that expect `gawk' to do automatic translationof
`"\r\n"', since it won't.".
My awk foo is insufficient to ack the patch but if it doesn't break
Unices it looks reasonable to me.
I'd be worried a bit about Solaris and other proprietary OSes with
prehistoric Unix utilities. Perhaps using \012 instead of \r is better.
Paolo
