[Gs-devel] CVS code has been broken (won't compile) since 1/29!

Igor V. Melichev igor at artifex.com
Wed Feb 6 08:24:41 PST 2002


Peter,

> From: L. Peter Deutsch [mailto:ghost at aladdin.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2002 7:13 PM
> To: igor at artifex.com
> Cc: tech at artifex.com; gs-devel at ghostscript.com
> Subject: Re: [Gs-devel] CVS code has been broken (won't compile) since
1/29!
>
>
> > First, I've downloaded revisions 1.21 and 1.20 of gdevps.c ,
> > and compared them as binaries. The only difference is in the $Id line.
> > Therefore it appears that you did not change anything in the file.
>
> I downloaded revisions 1.20 and 1.21.  1.20 has ^M^J line breaks.
> 1.21 has ^J line breaks, like all other source files in the repository.

Now I've downloaded them with HTTP, and now I see the difference.

> Apparently your CVS client converts the ^J line breaks, which are stored
in
> the repository, to ^M^J when it fetches files.

Looks like that.

> If you committed this file from a different machine than your usual one,

Yes, I did.

> perhaps you didn't configure the CVS client on that machine to do the EOL
> conversion.

Actually I did not configure both copies of the client,
but the copies were downloaded independently in different times.
I'll try to find a difference between them.

Igor.




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