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Re: X11 and stuff


jik- <fract@sprintmail.com> writes:

> I am trying to compile X11 libs and can't do it....
> 1) the patch would not apply correctly, so I edited all the files by
> hand :\  Almost every hunk failed!  I even tried Linux patch...
> 2) even then it would not compile..."Makefile.proto: missing seperator
> line 27" etc....
> This is at a line which says "XCOMM" and had a tailing ^M which I
> removed with a perl script and it got worst :\  Instead of ignoring it
> and trying to continue, it just stopped right there..

These are symptoms that your ascii files have been converted to
DOS format - each newline now has a carriage return (^M) before it.
You need to set "export CYGWIN32=binmode" before you start doing
editing and patching.
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David Fox           http://hci.ucsd.edu/dsf             xoF divaD
UCSD HCI Lab                                         baL ICH DSCU
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