On 1/29/2010 9:07 AM, Andy Koppe wrote: > Jeremy Bopp: >> DEWI - N. Zacharias: >>> i have just updated to 1.7.1 an run in trouble. During the previous >>> installations there was a switch which sets the used file format Dos/Unix. >>> This switch did not only disappear also the former uses file format (DOS) >>> was set to Unix underhand . The result is that a lot of scripts did not >>> work anymore because they produce a bunch of lines " bash: $'\r': command >>> not found" instead of the expected output. I'm not able to filter all the >>> scripts and files to remove the DOS line separator so I have to set the >>> file format correctly. >>> >>> As far I can see there is no topic in the user manual which covers this >>> issue also nothing in the FAQ. >> >> http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using.html#using-pathnames >> >> Among other things that section discusses the /etc/fstab file and the >> mount options available, two of which are "binary" and "text". You need >> to add entries to your /etc/fstab file for at least the paths which >> contain your files, likely /cygdrive/c or something similar, which set >> the "text" mount option. Using your cygdrive as an example: >> >> none /cygdrive cygdrive text,posix=0,user 0 0 > > Also, there's this at the top of http://www.cygwin.com: > > "Please note that the update from Cygwin 1.5.x to Cygwin 1.7.x might > require some manual changes afterwards. Most notably the mount point > storage has been moved out of the registry into files. User mount > points are NOT copied into the new user-specific /etc/fstab.d/$USER > file. Rather, every user has to call the /bin/copy-user-registry-fstab > shell script once after the update."
I've not used that script before, but from that text it seems that the script can only migrate user mounts, not system mounts. I get the impression that this problem is resulting from system mounts going binary. -Jeremy -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
