Date: Sat, 13 Nov 1999 12:50:01 -0800 (PST) From: "Scot W. Hetzel" <hetzels@westbend.net> To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ports/14861: XFree86335 build fails (carriage return chars in "Wraphelp.c") Message-ID: <199911132050.MAA54765@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR ports/14861; it has been noted by GNATS. From: "Scot W. Hetzel" <hetzels@westbend.net> To: "Marinos J . Yannikos" <mjy@pobox.com> Cc: <freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: ports/14861: XFree86335 build fails (carriage return chars in "Wraphelp.c") Date: Sat, 13 Nov 1999 14:45:09 -0600 From: "Marinos J . Yannikos" <mjy@pobox.com> > On Sat, Nov 13, 1999 at 10:48:42AM -0600, Scot W. Hetzel wrote: > > I fetched the US version, and the International version (psych.psy.uq.oz.au, > > ftp://ftp.internat.freebsd.org, ftp3.za.freebsd.org) of Wraphelp.c and did > > not see any carriage return chars in the files. > > > > Where did you obtain your copy of Wraphelp.c from? > > First, this is how /usr/ports/distfiles/xc looks: > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 17409 May 4 1993 Wraphelp.c > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 17161723 Aug 31 12:32 X335src-1.tgz > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 14834754 Aug 26 10:48 X335src-2.tgz > > This Wraphelp.c definitely contains carriage return characters. > The correct sizes of the Wraphelp.c files shown below: /usr/ports/distfiles/xc -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 16947 Nov 13 10:50 Wraphelp.c -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 8347 Nov 13 10:50 Wraphelp.c.usa > I can't tell where it comes from originally, as the fetch cmd may > have chosen a different site than the default because of temporary > network problems, but it was one of the places you looked at. > > So, the problem seems to have been that "fetch" in combination with > the proxies screwed up the transfer, it must have used ASCII transfer > mode which added carriage return characters (for whatever reason). > I can reproduce this while using a HTTP_PROXY (CERN httpd and several > Squids before that), but it works fine with passive mode FTP. As wget > gets it wrong too using the proxies (even skipping my own proxy, i.e. > just with the Squids), it has nothing to do with FreeBSD, so I'm sorry > for wasting your time (if I had known where Wraphelp.c came from, I > wouldn't have missed this, but I had assumed that it was part of the > standard XFree distribution). > > I still don't know why the ASCII transfers fails though... > If you have control of the proxy servers, you may want to check the proxys sources & documents on how to disable the LF -> LF+CR conversions. Scot PS. I sent this back to the PR system so that this PR can be closed by a ports commiter. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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