Re: BeOS build hangs soon after calling make

Jeff Hostetler (jeff@abisource.com)
Sat, 17 Apr 1999 04:37:10 -0500


Paul Rohr wrote:
>
> At 09:00 AM 4/16/99 -0400, Thomas Fletcher wrote:
> >And it should just work. Now from what I hear from the
> >replies are that there are some strange characters in the
> >Makefiles. This might have happened if Jeff used a
> >windows machine to make modifications so the nl are
> >messed up.

i did all the x86 BeOS mods directly on the platform
using first VI and then emacs.

i know this sounds strange, but it seemed like the BeOS
version of VI was messing with things. i'd hack on one
of the makefiles to add a file or something and the next
time i'd run make, i'd get a make error on the continuation
lines because of a CR.

does VI on x86 BeOS add CR's ??

>
> Have we heard any more details from any of the folks who are having this
> problem? AFAIK, there are three ways that they could have gotten the source:
>
> - CVS (which should automagically do LF conversion)
> - tarball (Unix linefeeds)
> - zipfile (Windows linefeeds)
>
> To date, we haven't released the source in .sea or .hqx packages with Mac
> linefeeds, but have expected we'll need to when the time comes.
>
> Which linefeed convention do the BeOS tools expect? Does it vary for PPC
> vs. Intel? If folks are just grabbing the wrong copy of the source, then
> that's an easy website fix for us to make.

i haven't heard anything back on this, so
can we assume that BeOS is LF only on both platforms ??

jeff



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