Help compiling gcc 4.2.0

[Brian Dessent]

Lee Rhodes wrote:

> I am struggling with the infamous unix/dos end-of-line '\r\n' vs '\n'
> incompatibilities.  It seems that no matter what shell I use (bash, sh,
> Cygwin, rxvt, dos) that the gnu make utility throws errors when it sees the
> '\r' CR character.
> 
>   Do I have to convert ALL the downloaded files into the unix format
> (dos2unix)? (Yikes!) or is there a global setting that I can use so that I
> don't have to do that.

There are no CRs anywhere in the source code tarballs.  If you are
seeing any, they are a result of the method you used to unpack them
locally.  This means you either didn't choose binary mode for your
mounts or you used a non-Cygwin tool such as Winzip to unpack the
tarballs.  In either case, don't do that.  There should never be a need
to convert anything.

Also, you'll need to use a Cygwin snapshot to build gcc otherwise you'll
run into <http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2007-03/msg00948.html> which has
been fixed for some time, but the last Cygwin release was a while ago.

Brian