Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: PATCH: tla on cygwin (works!)

[Robert Collins]

On Mon, 2004-01-26 at 05:47, address@hidden wrote:
> On Fri, 23 Jan 2004 11:52:06 +0100 (CET)
> address@hidden wrote:
> 
> > PATCH: tla on cygwin (works!)
> Nope. The binary does not, at least not with my cygwin. AFAICS cygwin
> screws up with the EOL conversion in the read() call (in text mode the
> read return value is lower then the number of actually read bytes, and
> so vu_file_to_string returns an error). 
> I'm trying to work around this, but I can't get your patches to work
> with the latest tla release
> (ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gnu-arch/tla-1.2pre1.tar.gz), so I can't
> recompile the binary. Do you have an arch repository somewhere where I
> can get the patches directly, or could you create a complete patch
> against the 1.2pre1 version?

For now, remount your system in binary mode.

Lode, you need to make all the file open calls in tla explicitly binary.
hackerlab is probably the right place to do this. Tom and I had a
discussion waaay back about exposing this to hackerlab clients, and we
didn't come to an agreement - the ascii/binary schism is pretty darn
yucky at the best of times.

Rob
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