Hi all, MSYS2 maintainers have agreed that the change by Cygwin constitudes a regression for the MSYS2 project and patched out the changes.
It's now safe to upgrade MSYS2 again. Tamar On Mon, Feb 20, 2017 at 3:58 PM, Phyx <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Windows devs, > > February comes with a major change in behavior for MSYS2/Cygwin. > Tools such as awk/sed etc now use binary mode unless on a text mount: > https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2017-02/msg00036.html > > This is problematic because GHC etc only use the underlying OS to > determine > how to output line endings. As such we output \r\n but in sed et al $ will > no longer match line endings. Which means out scripts are currently broken. > > Do not upgrade your MSYS2 install until a workaround for this is in place > or you will be unable to compile GHC. > > If you have updated your MSYS2 then using a text mount may be the easiest > option to get a working build again. As it seems just downgrading the tools > alone is not enough. > > Thanks, > Tamar
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