From: cgf@bbc.com (Christopher Faylor) Subject: Re: building cygnus compatible perl 8 Jan 1998 12:53:11 -0800 Message-ID: References: <34B43DDB.4487EB71@synopsys.com> Reply-To: cgf@bbc.com To: gnu-win32@cygnus.com In article <34B43DDB.4487EB71@synopsys.com>, B. Elizabeth Trojan wrote: >The latest perl patch file has a bunch of files with ^M characters >at the end of each line. Before attempting to build perl with the patch >you will need to search for files with ^M and delete the ^M characters. No. No it doesn't. My latest perl patch file does not have ^M characters in it. The perl distribution and perl patch file should be extracted to a directory that is mounted "binary". This will cause the files to be created without ^Ms in them. -- http://www.bbc.com/ cgf@bbc.com "Strange how unreal VMS=>UNIX Solutions Boston Business Computing the real can be." - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".