Re: Building in WSL

[James]

Hello,

On 17/06/2021 11:44, Kevin Barry wrote:
> Hi James,
>
> > I cannot even get autogen.sh to run!
> >
> >
> > -bash: ./autogen.sh: /bin/sh^M: bad interpreter: No such file or directory
> >
> > This appears to be caused by a line ending difference betwen *nix and
> > Windows.
>
> That's odd; did you clone the repo from within WSL or from Windows?

mingw64 git bash actually.

But, sure enough if I clone from within WSL I don't get the problem. 
Thanks for the hint.

> > Ugh. So much for WSL. I keep running into issues like this and yet some
> > people keep insisting to me that WSL == Linux (or as good as).
>
> I resorted to using WSL out of desperation on a system where I can't
> get the wifi to work on Linux. I was able to develop on LilyPond more
> or less unhindered (until I checked again recently). If you have a
> Linux system there's no reason to use WSL (IMO).

Quite.

James