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Re: winsup changes?
- To: cygwin-developers at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: winsup changes?
- From: Matt <matt at use dot net>
- Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2000 19:07:26 -0800
On Thu, 9 Mar 2000, Matt wrote:
> I just installed the 3/4 cygwin-inst package, and tried to build bison
> with it. My MAKE_MODE is set to UNIX, but the several of the header files
> in i686-pc-cygwin/include (stdio.h, sys/reent.h, etc) generate loads of
> "stray '\' in program" errors, and in turn other parsing errors.
>
> Since cygwin defaults to MAKE_MODE=UNIX, should those stray backslashes be
> in the files by default? Am I just missing something?
Ok, I figured it out. I use WinZip to extract cygwin inst and DLL packages
since using cygwin tools themselves would prevent them from being updated.
After using winzip to uncompress the cygwin-inst package, and then
uncompressing again in bash, all the header files worked fine.
wwweeeird.
Sorry for any confusion.
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