RE: Problems with sed, make and NT4 in general

RE: Problems with sed, make and NT4 in general

[Shamsutdinov, Salikhyan]

I had the same problem with make, which comes with binary distribution. It
was solved after compiling it myself under with MsDev.

When you compile something with sh ./configure and then make it will
understand only unix like stuff. I don't know why Windows like staff (
windows pathes ) are not enabled by default.

Salikhyan.

-----Original Message-----
From: Simon Sparkes [ mailto:Simon.Sparkes@ubsw.com ]
Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2000 1:45 PM
To: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com
Subject: Problems with sed, make and NT4 in general


Hello,

I am running version 1.1.1 and am having some very basic problems under
Windows NT4 and Windows 2000

1. Make does not recognise backslashes
2. sed -f file always reports errors on commands but the same commands
work fine on the command line.
   Command Example: s/abc/def/ fails in a file with the error "sed: file
file line 1 Unknown option to 's'" but is the same command is fine on
the command line. e.g. sed -e 's/abc/def/'
3. The NT4 version seems to have significant delays starting any cygwin
based program, but not Windows 2000

I assume I've got a basic configuration problem or two but I can't
figure out what
Simon Sparkes


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Re: Problems with sed, make and NT4 in general

[Corinna Vinschen]

"Shamsutdinov, Salikhyan" wrote:
> 
> I had the same problem with make, which comes with binary distribution. It
> was solved after compiling it myself under with MsDev.
> 
> When you compile something with sh ./configure and then make it will
> understand only unix like stuff. I don't know why Windows like staff (
> windows pathes ) are not enabled by default.

We are heavily working on that...

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Corinna Vinschen
Cygwin Developer
Cygnus Solutions, a Red Hat company

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Re: Problems with sed, make and NT4 in general

[Ville Herva]

On Tue, May 30, 2000 at 03:35:48PM +0300, you [Ville Herva] claimed:
> On Tue, May 30, 2000 at 12:44:56PM +0200, you [Simon Sparkes] claimed:
> > 2. sed -f file always reports errors on commands but the same commands
> > work fine on the command line.
> >    Command Example: s/abc/def/ fails in a file with the error "sed: file
> > file line 1 Unknown option to 's'" but is the same command is fine on
> > the command line. e.g. sed -e 's/abc/def/'
> 
> That's because sed uses mmap for reading the supplied by -f. With mmap,
> cygwin does not do the CR/LF conversion (AFAIK). So sed sees option '^M'
> for s// and barfs.
> 
> I think I could make a patch for that... 

Ummh. As of 20000525 snapshot, I can't reproduce this anymore (not with
text or binary mounts). I tought the configuretion succeeded because 

cat > foo <<END
s/a/b
END

no longer added ^M's in foo, but it's in fact sed that now works. Has some
magic been done to mmap?


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Re: Problems with sed, make and NT4 in general

[Ville Herva]

On Tue, May 30, 2000 at 12:44:56PM +0200, you [Simon Sparkes] claimed:
> 2. sed -f file always reports errors on commands but the same commands
> work fine on the command line.
>    Command Example: s/abc/def/ fails in a file with the error "sed: file
> file line 1 Unknown option to 's'" but is the same command is fine on
> the command line. e.g. sed -e 's/abc/def/'

That's because sed uses mmap for reading the supplied by -f. With mmap,
cygwin does not do the CR/LF conversion (AFAIK). So sed sees option '^M'
for s// and barfs.

I think I could make a patch for that... 

> 3. The NT4 version seems to have significant delays starting any cygwin
> based program, but not Windows 2000

Make sure you don't have any network drives in your path or anything like
that.

> This message contains confidential information and is intended only 
> for the individual named.  

Sendmail is for mail, named is for dns.


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Problems with sed, make and NT4 in general

[Simon Sparkes]

Hello,

I am running version 1.1.1 and am having some very basic problems under
Windows NT4 and Windows 2000

1. Make does not recognise backslashes
2. sed -f file always reports errors on commands but the same commands
work fine on the command line.
   Command Example: s/abc/def/ fails in a file with the error "sed: file
file line 1 Unknown option to 's'" but is the same command is fine on
the command line. e.g. sed -e 's/abc/def/'
3. The NT4 version seems to have significant delays starting any cygwin
based program, but not Windows 2000

I assume I've got a basic configuration problem or two but I can't
figure out what
Simon Sparkes


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