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diff --git a/cygwin32/build-instructions.steven-morlock2 b/cygwin32/build-instructions.steven-morlock2 index 0370b7053c..82ff387279 100644 --- a/cygwin32/build-instructions.steven-morlock2 +++ b/cygwin32/build-instructions.steven-morlock2 @@ -1,4 +1,8 @@ -This is an addendum to Steven Morlock's original post. The patch, perl5.005_02.patch, contains the USEMYBINMODE correction described below. +This document is obsolete. Refer to README.cygwin32. + +This is an addendum to Steven Morlock's original post. +perl5.005_03-static-patch, contains the USEMYBINMODE correction described +below. ***************************** Subject: Re: HOWTO: Builiding Perl under Win95/98 using Cygwin32 @@ -12,9 +16,9 @@ details. I'd like to correct that here. There is a need to address the issue of end of lines being CR/NL or NL on the Windows platform. Cygwin32 by default converts NL to CR/NL during file I/O by non Cygwin32-savvy applications. This means that -Perl, since it does not support 'binmode' for the Cygwin32 platform, will -not be able to read & write untranslated/binary files. There are two -methods of over coming this. The first is to mount the Cygwin32 +Perl, since it does not support 'binmode' for the Cygwin32 platform, +will not be able to read & write untranslated/binary files. There are +two methods of over coming this. The first is to mount the Cygwin32 partitions in binary mode. The second is to enable binmode support in Perl. In the original post I had mounted the partition as binary and neglected to include that fact in the post. @@ -32,10 +36,10 @@ and neglected to include that fact in the post. umount / mount -b c:\\ / - You must also get and install the gzip'd version of the Perl source code - archive. The zip'd version of the archive has all NL converted to CR/NL - pairs in all text files. So you should be downloading the files ending in - '.gz', not '.zip'. + You must also get and install the gzip'd version of the Perl source + code archive. The zip'd version of the archive has all NL converted + to CR/NL pairs in all text files. So you should be downloading the + files ending in '.gz', not '.zip'. * Patching Perl to add Cygwin32 binmode support: @@ -60,7 +64,8 @@ and neglected to include that fact in the post. + */ + #define USEMYBINMODE / **/ + #define my_binmode(fp, iotype) \ -+ (PerlLIO_setmode(PerlIO_fileno(fp), O_BINARY) != -1 ? TRUE : NULL) ++ (PerlLIO_setmode(PerlIO_fileno(fp), O_BINARY) != -1 ? +TRUE : NULL) + #endif + #include "regexp.h" |