[Python-Dev] Windows Toolchain

[Eric Pruitt]

The code I downloaded was the official Python 3.1 release tarball. I only
checked the line endings in the pcbuild.sln file so I am not sure about the
other files. I will attempt to build the Python 3000 SVN trunk shortly and
report back.

On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 13:09, Paul Moore <p.f.moore at gmail.com> wrote:

> 2009/7/13 Eric Pruitt <eric.pruitt at gmail.com>:
> > It is indeed the file ../PCBuild/pcbuild.sln. The line endings appear to
> be
> > Unix style but after fixing them, I still have the same problem.
>
> Where did you get your copy of the Python source from? If it's from
> Subversion, I'm surprised the line endings are wrong. If it's
> Mercurial, then this may be indicative of the still somewhat open
> question of how line endings will be handled in Mercurial (which
> doesn't have a server-side way of saying that a file should use
> platform-native line endings).
>
> If you still have the same problem after fixing the file, this may
> indicate further damage, or maybe the fix isn't doing the right thing
> as the file has already been opened (and mangled) by Visual Studio,
>
> I'd suggest trying to reproduce your issue with a clean checkout from
> Subversion.
>
> It would also help if you could describe precisely the steps you took
> to download the sources and build them (I appreciate that this may not
> be easy now, after you've tried various things).
>
> Paul.
>
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