Eric Blake wrote:
#!/bin/sh
IFS=' ''''
' # Yes, that was a space, tab, and line ending
I retract this suggestion. On further investigation, bash currently does
not treat \r as an IFS whitespace character, and the hacks to the source
to make this happen are too invasive for my liking.
I recently updated to Bash 3.1.17(8) and found my local build system
failing due to the removal of CR/LF support:
A script on a binary mount that uses \r\n line endings will probably
encounter syntax errors or odd variable assignments, because the \r is
treated literally. If this happens to you,
So why isn't using a textmode mount a solution?
Packages generally contain the sources, build scripts, tools binaries, etc
in a single directory tree. For example a ./configure script located in the
package root directory along side other project files. As such placing just
the bash scripts in a
Jonathan Arnold wrote:
* Some translate files to a Local format (CR/LF on Windows).
Perforce will do this if you let it. Or you can set the LineEnd option
for the client to be Unix or Share.
This was in fact my original patch attempt, however it had the following
problems:
* You can
mwoehlke wrote:
Right; non-standard behavior (and any non-binary treatment
of '\r' certainly counts!) should - and I might dare even to say
must - be disabled by default. Although in this case I can't
think of any reason why you would ever have a '\r' in a shell
script (other than as part of a
Jonathan Arnold wrote:
You can change the Perforce filetype to be binary, and that way Perforce
will leave the cr/lf alone. Then check out the scripts, do a d2u on them,
and check them back in.
$ p4 edit -t binary myscript.sh
I believe this is what I will end up being forced to do. Many of
Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
But what you've described so far isn't adding up and my guess is
you're going to have to offer a more convincing argument based
on detailed facts relevant to the problem you're having to sway
the hearts and minds of those who do the work.
I guess I have been somewhat
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