Re: AW: M4 buffering problem? 0d0a -> 0d0d0a

[Eric Blake]

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According to MS on 5/11/2007 4:30 AM:
> its windows based. (i am running W2K, and i tried it on a XP machine too). 
> at first the problem occured with m4 1.4 and cygwin1.dll from Cygnus 1.1.7.

I _highly_ suggest updating your cygwin installation.  Cygwin1.dll is now
at 1.5.24, and I maintain the cygwin port of m4, which is at m4 1.4.9.
Anything older than that has known bugs, so I am not willing to spend time
helping you debug obsolete setups.  I also recommend that you ask on the
cygwin mailing list (cygwin AT cygwin DOT com) rather than here, since
your problem is cygwin-specific.

> 
> a few days ago i installed MSYS1.0 and tried it in this environment with the
> same result.

I'm less familiar with an MSYS environment, but I know the msys project
forked from cygwin, but tends to use mingw binaries.  The mingw port of m4
uses Microsoft's stdio instead of cygwin's.  I know that Microsoft's stdio
is buggy on text files, and am trying to find time to help gnulib work
around that, but I don't think the bugs are the same.  But are you sure
you weren't just using msys as the shell, but still getting the behavior
of the cygwin m4?

> e:\temp on /tmp type user (textmode)
> c: on /cygdrive/c type user (binmode,noumount)

Was your input file in /tmp, perchance, since that is your only text
mount?  I suggest sticking with binary mounts if you are going to use cygwin.

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Eric Blake             address@hidden
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