[omniORB] GCC-2.95.1 error: stray '\' in program

[Rosimildo DaSilva]

>On Monday 11 October, "Smith, Norman" wrote:
>
>> We've had some strange behavior due to differences with line termination
>> characters between NT and unix (i.e. <CR><LF> vs. <LF> on unix), such as
>> when trying to use CVS on NT, but the repository is on a unix mapped
drive.
>> We are using WinCVS on NT as a GUI front-end to CVS, so I don't know if
the
>> problem lies within WinCVS or CVS itself. The extra carriage return would
be
>> a hidden character, and would always be at the end of the line (i.e. past
>> the '\' at the end of each line).
>
>The problem is indeed to do with line endings. CVS on Windows does the
>right thing, and converts Unix-style \n line endings in the repository
>into DOS-style \r\n endings. It looks from Rosimildo's errors as
>though GCC 2.95 on Windows expects Unix-style line endings. I would
>consider this a bug in GCC.
>
>You can workaround the problem by specifying the -kb flag to the
>checkout operation, like
>
>  cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@cvs.uk.research.att.com:/cvsroot co -kb omni
>
>This treats all files as binary, and so doesn't convert line endings.
>Unfortunately, some Windows applications will be upset with the Unix
>line endings.
>



Thanks. I'll try it in a couple of weeks when I get ready for the next
snapshot....

Rosimildo.