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Re: [Devel] Problem with backslash
From: |
Werner LEMBERG |
Subject: |
Re: [Devel] Problem with backslash |
Date: |
Mon, 11 Jun 2001 22:32:14 +0200 (CEST) |
> I'm new to the GNU/Unix world and have encountered a little
> quirk. When a line continuation character followed by CrLf is
> encountered by the gcc compiler, it posts and error on the data
> following the back slash.
Strange. gcc on a CRLF platform should accept this line endoing (and
even LF only, IIRC) without problems.
> When I change the \CrLf to a \Lf, it's ok. I'm guessing this is a
> unix verses dos type difference. All of the freetype files that I
> have use the \CrLf version. Does someone know of a switch that will
> tell gcc what's going on or is there a unix version that I can
> download so that I don't have to modify all of the files?
The file archives ending with `.tar.gz' use LF. You need the programs
`gunzip' and `tar' (or similar tools) to unpack such files.
Werner