I'm running cygwin on WinXP and got a different failure (below) from the latest darcs hs-plugins. Line 11 is right after the TOP definition. Does anyone have a theory about what's going on here? - Conal
looks like the TOP and GHC_LIB_PATH values are the output of external commands, such as ghc --print-libdir, and someone forgot to remove the linefeeds from the output before inserting it in the script?
Recent versions of cygwin bash do not by default handle DOS/Windows-style line endings well. See any recent bash release notice on cygwin-announce for details, but here are the juicy bits. According to Eric Blake volunteer cygwin bash maintainer <quote> 4. This version of bash has a cygwin-specific shell option, named "igncr" to force bash to ignore \r, independently of cygwin's mount style. As of bash- 3.2.3-5, it controls regular scripts, command substitution, and sourced files. I hope to convince the upstream bash maintainer to accept this patch into the future bash 4.0 even on Linux, rather than keeping it a cygwin-specific patch, but only time will tell. There are several ways to activate this option: 4a. For a single affected script, add this line just after the she-bang: (set -o igncr) 2>/dev/null && set -o igncr; # comment is needed 4b. For a single script, invoke bash explicitly with the shopt, as in 'bash -o igncr ./myscript' rather than the simpler './myscript'. 4c. To affect all scripts, export the environment variable BASH_ENV, pointing to a file that sets the shell option as desired. Bash will source this file on startup for every script. 4d. Added in the bash-3.2-2 release: export the environment variable SHELLOPTS with igncr included in it. It is read-only from within bash, but you can set it before invoking bash; once in bash, it auto-tracks the current state of 'set -o igncr'. If exported, then all bash child processes inherit the same option settings; with the exception added in 3.2.9-11 that certain interactive options are not inherited in non-interactive use. 5. You can also experiment with the IFS variable for controlling how bash will treat \r during variable expansion. </quote> -- Iain Alexander ia@stryx.demon.co.uk