Build Problem under Cygwin

[Robert S. Grimes]

Okay, a hunch occurred to me after mailing this, so I'd like to ask a 
different. question: how could I have gotten DOS end of lines into the 
autoconf source?

Backing up a bit, I had used "tar xjf ../archive/autoconf-2.62.tar.bz2" 
to unpack autoconf, like I've done many times before, so I certainly 
assumed then EOL chars in text files would not be altered. (Note: Cygwin 
has been installed to use Unix EOL - always has been on my machine). 
However, something smelled fishy with the error, so in desperation, I 
decided to run dos2unix on the autoconf-2.62 source tree, and lo and 
behold, I was able to successfully configure, build, and install autoconf!

The RTEMS source tree is different, however. I again used tar, but this 
time on a Linux machine, to unpack 4.9.0 and put it under revision 
control (vendor branch under Subversion). Later, I checked it into my 
Cygwin host and am attempting to build that. I'll have to figure out 
where the DOS EOLs came from there...

So my questions now are these:

1. Any idea how I could have gotten DOS EOL chars into the autoconf 
source tree?
2. Any idea how to test a tree for DOS EOL chars?

Thanks,
-Bob


Robert S. Grimes wrote:
> I'm trying to build the 4.9.0 toolset under Cygwin, and I'm not quite
> getting there.  I have gotten binutils and gcc/newlib built, but I can't
> configure autoconf-2.62.  Here is the output:
>
>     $ ../autoconf-2.62/configure --prefix=/usr/rtems/4.9/bin
>     checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/ginstall -c
>     checking whether build environment is sane... yes
>     checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /usr/bin/mkdir -p
>     checking for gawk... gawk
>     checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
>     checking whether /bin/sh -n is known to work... yes
>     checking for expr... /usr/bin/expr
>     checking for GNU M4 that supports accurate traces... /usr/bin/m4
>     checking how m4 supports trace files... --debugfile
>     checking for perl... /usr/bin/perl
>     checking for emacs... no
>     checking for xemacs... no
>     checking for emacs... no
>     checking where .elc files should go... ${datadir}/emacs/site-lisp
>     checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /usr/bin/grep
>     checking for egrep... /usr/bin/grep -E
>     checking for a sed that does not truncate output... /usr/bin/sed
>     configure: creating ./config.status
>     config.status: creating tests/Makefile
>     gawk: ./confd0FP0v/subs.awk:1: BEGIN {\r
>     gawk: ./confd0FP0v/subs.awk:1:        ^ backslash not last character
>     on line
>     config.status: error: could not create tests/Makefile
>
>
> But wait, there's more!  I already have autoconf-2.61 installed, so I
> decided to hope that could work, and attempted to build RTEMS itself.  I
> get the same failure - here is the relavent output:
>
>     <snip>
>     checking for bash... /usr/bin/bash
>     configure: creating ./config.status
>     config.status: creating Makefile
>     gawk: ./confUm8h5X/subs.awk:1: BEGIN {\r
>     gawk: ./confUm8h5X/subs.awk:1:        ^ backslash not last character
>     on line
>     config.status: error: could not create Makefile
>     configure: error: /bin/sh '../../../rtems/tools/build/configure'
>     failed for tools/build
>
>
> Notice the similarity?  I couldn't find anything with Google, primarily
> because I'm not sure what to specify to get good results - either no
> hits or way too many.  I'm hoping someone can help here...
>
> Thanks,
> -Bob
>
>
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