Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] win32: Fix CRLF problem in make_device_config.sh

[Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>]

On 12/17/2010 02:34 PM, Andreas Färber wrote:
>>>
>>> Fix this by removing any \r at end of line.
>>
>> Why isn't cygwin (or whatever you're using) removing it?
>
> I believe Cygwin had an option to choose the line ending style once
> during setup. By default it uses Unix-style line endings.
> If someone edits source files in some Windows editor, the above issue
> seems likely.

Hmm, MSYS is more problematic: the manual says "In the MSYS environment 
under Windows, `gawk' automatically uses binary mode for reading and 
writing files. Thus there is no need to use the `BINMODE' variable. 
This can cause problems with other Unix-like components that have been 
ported to Windows that expect `gawk' to do automatic translationof 
`"\r\n"', since it won't.".

> My awk foo is insufficient to ack the patch but if it doesn't break
> Unices it looks reasonable to me.

I'd be worried a bit about Solaris and other proprietary OSes with 
prehistoric Unix utilities.  Perhaps using \012 instead of \r is better.

Paolo