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On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 01:20:22PM -0700, Rob Walker wrote:Don't get me wrong. Cygwin's the best Linux-like environment I've ever used. Barring a fix, a workaround is what I'll employ if possible. But each workaround adds to the tribal knowledge base, making Cygwin harder to sell to my teams. Up until recently I'd tell them to just "go get the latest Cygwin" and everything will work.
Christopher Faylor wrote:
On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 03:17:02PM +0300, Antti Tyrv?inen wrote:Saying cygwin's bash wasn't designed to handle CRLF is a lot like
Hi!b), i.e., use the tool the way it was designed to be used.
Installed latest cygwin and I met problems with bash and scripts which are in DOS format.
$ bash --version GNU bash, version 3.1.17(9)-release (i686-pc-cygwin) Copyright (C) 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
I read the mailing lists and I also tried to add ' shopt -s igncr;#' in the beginning of the script, but it didn't work. In my opinion, this is bad solution if I have to edit all my existing scripts.
All works fine with bash 3.1.6.
What I should do?
a) install bash 3.1.6 and wait for new
b) install bash 3.1.9. and convert all my scripts to UNIX format
saying that cygwin's bash (as previously released all these years)
wasn't designed to work with the rest of Windows. This might actually
be the case, but I don't understand the point. If you don't want to
work with Windows, why release for Windows?
So, why were you asking for help if you weren't going to actually avail
yourself of it?
You can read the first few paragraphs of the Cygwin web site forYes, thanks. Are you saying that this should be interpreted as "don't try to use Cygwin with anything else in Windows?" The great thing about Cygwin has been its interoperability. The people who are moaning and groaning have found Cygwin to be a powerful, consistent environment for working on Windows with other Windows programs.
information about what Cygwin is.
If you're referring to the performance gain realized, I think it could have been accomplished (if not as trivially) without breaking CRLF handling. This seems to be indicated in other posts, ones that talk about reworking line parsing.Many, many other cross-platform products make allowances for CRLF (version control systems are a prime example) to maximize compatibility, and thereby their usefulness, on Windows. Cygwin's recent changes (with make and bash) here has put a real crimp in my plans to depend on cygwin for a portable build environment.
Just curious, is there a goal or strategy that drives changes like
this?
You may not have been paying attention but this has already been
explained a few times.
Thanks, Rob
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