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Re: Help with getting binaries to not print ^M


Greetings, Jason Gross!

> I have some precompiled binaries (from, e.g., ocaml, gtk+).  When I
> install them to a location like D:\OCaml\bin and run them, the output
> has a ^M at the end of every line.  When I copy the binaries to a
> cygwin path (something that doesn't get translated to /cygdrive/),
> they work fine.  This messes with all of my build scripts, which
> except things like `ocamlc -where` not to have a trailing ^M.  So I
> tried moving them to D:\cygwin64\, and this fixed some of the
> problems, but it's still broken in some cases, like when `ocamlc
> -where` gives "D:/cygwin64/OCaml/lib"

> and then a build script later calls `D:/cygwin64/OCaml/bin/ocamlc -where`, and the ^M's come back.

Wait, what? WHY it calls the binary by a windows path, in first place?

> It seems very broken to me that the output of an executable should
> depend in this way on how it's called.  If it's relevant, I updated
> cygwin-x86_64 earlier today, and mount gives me
> $ mount
> D:/cygwin64/bin on /usr/bin type ntfs (binary,auto)
> D:/cygwin64/lib on /usr/lib type ntfs (binary,auto)
> D:/cygwin64 on / type ntfs (binary,auto)
> C: on /cygdrive/c type ntfs (binary,posix=0,user,noumount,auto)
> D: on /cygdrive/d type ntfs (binary,posix=0,user,noumount,auto)
> E: on /cygdrive/e type ntfs (binary,posix=0,user,noumount,auto)
> Y: on /cygdrive/y type afs (binary,posix=0,user,noumount,auto)
> Z: on /cygdrive/z type afs (binary,posix=0,user,noumount,auto)

> Anyway, I'd like to know how to fix this without manually sticking in
> code to strip ^M in all of my build scripts.


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WBR,
Andrey Repin (anrdaemon@yandex.ru) 09.11.2013, <17:20>

Sorry for my terrible english...


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