problem compiling Python 2.0 on Sun Solaris

Trent Mick trentm at ActiveState.com
Wed Jan 3 18:07:15 EST 2001


On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 09:10:44PM +0000, Jef Mangelschots wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I just downloaded the sources for Python 2.0 from 
> http://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.0/BeOpen-Python-2.0.tar.gz
> 
> ALL the text files are unrecognizable to my system because each line
> is ended with 0x0D 0x0A, common for Windows NT systems, but not for
> Unix systems.

You could just get the source from cvs at sourceforge.

    > export CVSROOT=:pserver:anonymous at cvs.python.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/python
    > cvs login         # just hit Enter for the password
    > cvs -z3 co -r release20-maint python

I am not sure if this will have a patch or two applied beyond the actual
Python 2.0 release but it will be very close.


Or you could just run dos2unix on all those files.


Cheers,
Trent


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Trent Mick
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