Building GHC on Windows

[Sigbjorn Finne]

Felix Martini wrote:
> Sigbjorn Finne:
>   
>> It works fine, but be mindful of how 'git' handles crlf translations on
>> Windows.
>> Having run into this a couple of times, it certainly looks the likely cause.
>> Felix
>> may want to try cloning as follows:
>>
>>  foo$ git config --global core.autocrlf false
>>  foo$ git clone http://darcs.haskell.org/ghc.git
>>     
>
> Unfortunately i cannot change the global autocrlf flag because of
> other projects. I edited the sync-all script to fix the problem, but
> is good to know that line conversions may be the cause. It would be
> nice if sync-all (and other scripts) were written in portable Perl.
> Perl runs well on Windows whereas msys is brittle.
>
>   
ok. Surely you could just temporarily set it as such, followed by 
config'ing it for that repo only
rather than have it be global? I suspect tweaking that one file instead 
will just be the first of
many such tweaks..

--sigbjorn