Soved: beware of WinZip (Re: Trouble building gdb 7.3.1 in Cygwin on Win7-64)

[manu0507]

Hello again,

I think this may be useful to others trying to build gdb in Cygwin:

- the problem reported below was caused by CR/LF ending of the script's
lines - Cygwin converts most of DOS's CR/LFs into LFs, but apparently not
all
- however, I'm told the gdb distribution (gdb-7.3.1.tar.gz) does NOT have
CR/LFs anywhere, only LFs
- the original LFs were "generously" converted into CR/LFs when I extracted
the archive with WinZip (bad idea!)
- extracting the package within Cygwin with 'tar xvfz gdb-7.3.1.tar.gz'
solved the problem below.

Unfortunately I'm having another problem building gdb... but I'm starting
another thread for that.

Cheers,

Emanuel


manu0507 wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> Having only found gdb 7.2 pre-built for Win-64, I decided I'd try and
> build the 7.3.1 myself, using MinGW64. To do so, I first installed the
> latest Cygwin environment (1.7.9-1), which appears to be running
> flawlessly.
> Once in Cygwin, I cd'd to the previously extracted gdb-7.3.1 and tried
> what appears to be the first thing to do according to the documentation,
> namely running configure. But no luck, here's what I got:
> 
> address@hidden /cygdrive/d/Installs/gdb_7_3_1/gdb-7.3.1
> $ ./configure
> ./configure: line 14: $'\r': command not found
> ./configure: line 29: syntax error near unexpected token `newline'
> '/configure: line 29: `     ;;
> 
> This looks to me like a problem with line ends... any idea?
> 
> Many thanks for your help,
> 
> Emanuel
> 
> 

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