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Re: eCos Configuration Tool experimental build for Vista


Hi David

The issue you describe arises because the CDL library, on which the eCos
host tools are based, uses Tcl to read/write files. Tcl uses its own
line-ending translation layer and ignores the Cygwin filesystem mount
mode (text or binary). This is one of the reasons why I always recommend
the use of a filesystem mounted in text mode for eCos development on
Microsoft Windows.

While it would certainly be possible to hack the eCos tools to
workaround this issue, the correct location for a fix would be in the
Tcl library.

John Dallaway
eCosCentric Limited


-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: Re: eCos Configuration Tool experimental build for Vista
Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2008 06:08:11 -0700
From: David Brennan <david@brennanhome.com>
To: John Dallaway <jld@ecoscentric.com>
CC: ecos-discuss@ecos.sourceware.org
Newsgroups: gmane.os.ecos.general
References: <48BF9501.3090109@ecoscentric.com>

John,
I don't know if this is the right time to bring this up. But it is a
minor "windows" issue that we came across.
We use subversion for our VCS system. When we configured it to use
native line-endings (I don't remember the correct term for that in svn
lingo), we found the ecosconfig spits out files with Windows line
endings under windows/cygwin, even if cygwin is configured for unix
line-endings. This caused cygwin's svn to think that our ecosconfig
file changed every time we ran 'ecosconfig anything'.

Our solution was to use a windows native svn client.  One developer
used TortiseSVN. I downloaded the windows command line version from
tigris.org. Both of these used windows line endings for everything, so
it matched ecosconfig.

But it would be nice if ecosconfig would honor the cygwin setting, or
maybe have a command line option for one or the other. Or if there is
an existing file, keep the line endings the same.

David


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