Re: build question

[Brian Jones]

Tom Tromey <address@hidden> writes:

> >>>>> "Eric" == Eric Blake <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> Eric> It has to be line terminator translation somewhere, because this
> Eric> hack to automake makes everything work for me.
> 
> Thanks for looking into this.
> I'll see if we can come up with a better patch.
> Would you mind testing one when it is available?
> We're planning to release automake 1.6 shortly, and I'd like to make
> sure this bug is fixed in that release.

It may just be that Eric needed to mount the drive/directory in
binmode instead of textmode in cygwin or that the CYGWIN environment
variable needed 'binmode' in it.

You can of course make automake more immune to this problem and that's
good too.
-- 
Brian Jones <address@hidden>