Re: Issues with Cygwin on Windows 8.1

["Larry Hall (Cygwin)" <reply-to-list-only-lh at cygwin dot com>]

On 05/07/2014 10:11 PM, Dato wrote:
> Hi,
>
>      I just set up Cygwin for x86 on my Windows 8.1 (64-bit) machine, and
> have been seeing the following issues:
>
> 1. When doing 'git clone', some of the expected messages don't show up. For
> example, this is what I see:
>
>    datod_000@Q9450 ~/sandbox
>    $ which git
>    /usr/bin/git
>
>    datod_000@Q9450 ~/sandbox
>    $ git clone https://github.com/libimobiledevice/libplist.git
>    Cloning into 'libplist'...
>
>    datod_000@Q9450 ~/sandbox
>    $
>
> As you can see, the 'git clone' command doesn't display the stats such as
> objects received, deltas resolved, etc.
>
> 2. When invoking python, I don't get the python's prompt back:
>
>    datod_000@Q9450 ~/sandbox
>    $ which python
>    /usr/bin/python
>
>    datod_000@Q9450 ~/sandbox
>    $ python
>
> It basically just hangs there. I have to ^C to get the shell prompt back.
>
> 3. I have a shell script that runs just fine on an older Cygwin installation
> on a Vista machine. But on this newer Cygwin installation, I get the
> following error message:
>
>    datod_000@Q9450 ~/sandbox/libplist
>    $ ./autogen.sh
>    ./autogen.sh: line 16: syntax error: unexpected end of file
>
> Any idea on what may be causing these issues and suggestion on how to fix
> them will be deeply appreciated. Thanks.


Not sure about the other issues but this one sounds a bit like the file
in question contains Windows EOL characters.  Try running d2u on the
scripts and see if that helps.  If you continue to have problems, please
follow the problem reporting guidelines at the link below for your next
round on this issue.

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