From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Lewin A.R.W. Edwards" To: David Korn , "'Lewin A.R.W. Edwards'" , gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org Subject: RE: Still problems with latest CVS for arm-elf (cygwin) Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 05:37:00 -0000 Message-id: <4.3.2.7.2.20010323083032.00afc320@mail.earthlink.net> References: <718D38CAB6E0D011B2C90060970C28A56427A9@exchangeserver.pixelpower.com> X-SW-Source: 2001-03/msg00224.html Hi David, >dir is mounted text mode. In particular, I've never had any trouble >with the .md or other config files, except when I've forgotten to use I didn't have a problem with 2.95.2, but sometime in more recent versions this behavior has become broken on cygwin. >the textmode path to invoke the toplevel configure command. I haven't >investigated or experimented, but I've wondered if it somehow relates to >the mode of the /tmp dir, which an awful lot of files pass through on >their way from one place to another. The instructions Red Hat provides for building the ARM tools (as part of the eCos install process) specifically say that /tmp should be mounted in binmode. Normally /tmp is just an inheritor of the (binmode) / mount point, so this is the default behavior. > Hmm. A second thought occurs to me: you aren't using winzip to untar >the source, are you? No, these sources were obtained directly using cvs. It's all very mysterious. -- Lewin A.R.W. Edwards Embedded Engineer, Digi-Frame Inc. Work: http://www.digi-frame.com/ Tel (914) 937-4090 9am-6:30pm M-F ET Personal: http://www.larwe.com/ http://www.zws.com/