Re: crosstool and cygwin

[Allan Clark <allanc at chickenandporn dot com>]

Dan Kegel wrote:

> Tobias Polzin wrote:
>
> > Dein Deutsch ist jedenfalls besser als mein Englisch. :-) War schon 
> > etwas gewagt, eine Redewendung "mit Kanonen auf Spatzen schiessen" 
> > mit einem Dictionary zu übersetzen. Würde man wahrscheinlich so nicht 
> > sagen, oder?
>
>
> "Shooting a fly with a cannon" is a pretty close translation that 
> people would understand, I think.
>
> > > > 4. You could mention in the HOWTO in the section on Cygwin, that 
> > > > the crosstool directory has to be mounted in "binmode" not in 
> > > > "textmode". I ran into strange problems with the "textmode" and 
> > > > felt really stupid afterwards. :-)
> >
> >
> > > Ahhh, serves you right for using textmode :-)  
> >
> >
> >
> > I did this, because I heared that this is suggested if you want to 
> > work with CVS:
> >
> > http://www.gigascale.org/softdevel/faq/23.html
>
>
> Interesting.  I'll have to note the conflict in my doc.
> Probably it's ok to use binary mode with CVS as long
> as you use Unix editors when making changes to the files.

Textmode: translates 0x0d0a into 0x0a ?  Is there a way to check that?  
Documentation is nice, but no one reads it! :(

Allan

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