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Re: installer chokes on unix line endings
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 14:54:15 -0500
- Subject: Re: installer chokes on unix line endings
- References: <bpio0f$7ic$1@sea.gmane.org> <1069356816.1117.17.camel@localhost>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 06:33:37AM +1100, Robert Collins wrote:
>On Fri, 2003-11-21 at 02:52, Neal Becker wrote:
>> Ironic, isn't it? If you download setup.ini with unix line endings, the
>> installer fails to parse it. I'm guessing this can't be too hard to fix.
>
>Fix what? Setup is responsible for doing it's own downloads. If you use
>an external tool - presumably because you're setting up your own mirror
>- it's your responsibility to give setup the same things it expects from
>the official mirrors.
>
>That said, it's probably easy enough to tweak the parser, and I'll
>review a patch happily.
I'm confused. As I mentioned, setup.ini is built on linux and the setup.ini
that setup.exe downloaded to my local directory has UNIX line endings.
cgf
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