Re: binutils for arm-wince-pe build broken on cygwin?

[Pedro Alves <pedro_alves at portugalmail dot pt>]

Alan Modra wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 04, 2006 at 12:30:43AM +0100, Pedro Alves wrote:
>   
> > Pedro Alves wrote:
> >     
> > > Alan Modra wrote:
> > >       
> > > > On Fri, Mar 31, 2006 at 09:36:54PM +0100, Pedro Alves wrote:
> > > >
> > > >         
> > > > > "/* Script for ld -Ur: link w/out relocation, do create constructors 
> > > > > */\n\
> > > > >
> > > > > \n\
> > > > > OUTPUT_FORMAT(pe-arm-little)
> > > > > \n\
> > > > >
> > > > > \n\
> > > > >
> > > > > \n\
> > > > > SEARCH_DIR(\"/cygdrive/d/gcc/wince/arm-wince-pe/lib\");
> > > > > \n\
> > > > > <snip>
> > > > > ---------------------------------
> > > > > Notice the extra empty lines without a continuation escape. Looking 
> > > > > at a tree I have build a few months ago, I see that
> > > > > those empty newlines should not be there.
> > > > > I think earmpe.c is build from pe.em by genscripts.sh.
> > > > >    
> > > > >           
> > > > Yes, and the part you show above comes from ldscripts/armpe.xu, itself a
> > > > generated file.  I would guess armpe.xu has blank lines too, possibly
> > > > caused by a broken sed.
> > > >
> > > >  
> > > >         
> > > You are right. Thanks for the tip. Downgrading to sed 4.1.4 fixed the
> > > problem.
> > > I am now confirming if the problem shows up also in i686-pc-cygwin 
> > > target.
> > > Has anyone stumbled on a similar problem yet?
> > >
> > >       
> > A little late, but...
> > Confirmed. I am having the same problem for i686-pc-cygwin.
> > Found this interesting thread at cygwin's mailing list
> > http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-02/msg00846.html
> >     
>
> Yes, binutils uses sed -e '/^ *$/d' to delete blank lines.  If you have
> somehow managed to put CR LF line ending on files in your source tree,
> then you'll run into trouble using the new sed.
>
>   

Probably because I used Winrar to unpack the snapshots. That will teach 
me to use tar zxfv.
Thanks again, and,

Cheers,
Pedro Alves