Re: [Ltib] building lzo, and why "dos2unix" is your friend

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Mon, 29 Dec 2008, Stuart Hughes wrote:

> Hi Robert,
>
> I've many times been caught out by dos line end mangling.  Whether
> macros getting messed up in gcc, or the kind of thing you ran into.
> The moral of the story is to avoid mixing the 2 environments if at
> all possible.  Worst of all, when it happens it's often silent and
> inexplicable (until explained).

  i only posted about this in case anyone else would have been bitten
by this.  the package-building error message you get does not even
remotely suggest that windows-style EOL characters are the issue.
more later.

rday
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