Compile broken on new MSYS2
February comes with a major change in behavior for MSYS2/Cygwin. Tools such as awk/sed etc now use binary mode unless on a text mount: https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2017-02/msg00036.html
This is problematic because GHC etc only use the underlying OS to determine how to output line endings. As such we output \r\n but in sed et al $ will no longer match line endings. Which means out scripts are currently broken.
The build will fail with errors such as
[00:09:33][Step 2/6] utils/hp2ps/dist/build/.depend.c_asm:2: *** missing separator. Stop.
[00:09:33][Step 2/6] make: *** [Makefile:125: all] Error 2This is because the --make-depends output from GHC will write a file using \r\n newlines which sed et al will no longer match with $.
This change is pretty catastrophic in that it also applies to piped data from stdout/stderr.
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| Version | 8.0.1 |
| Type | Bug |
| TypeOfFailure | OtherFailure |
| Priority | high |
| Resolution | Unresolved |
| Component | Build System |
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