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-> N.B. If you're interested in building Midipix using this script, please join the project's
-IRC channel #midipix on Freenode and ask for the address of the internal repositories.
-
-> N.B. If in doubt, consult the fault-tolerant & highly optimised 3D laser show-equipped
-usage screen w/ ./build.sh -h or a hungry lion might eat you alive.
-
-A Midipix distribution consists of the following:
-* the native Midipix toolchain, consisting of perk, gcc, its dependencies,
- and binutils,
-* musl, a lightweight, fast, simple, and free libc[1] used by Midipix,
-* the Midipix runtime components that bridge the gap between the libc and the
- executive subsystems of all Windows NT-derived Windows OS starting with and
- including Windows XP, and
-* a steadily increasing number of 3rd party open source packages, as expected in
- any modern POSIX-compliant \*nix environment, including GNU coreutils, shells,
- libraries such as ncurses, libressl, as well as Perl and Python.
-
-## Build-time dependencies
-* **Alpine Linux**: binutils bzip2 cmake coreutils curl findutils g++ gawk gcc git grep gzip libc-dev linux-headers lzip make musl-dev net-tools patch perl perl-xml-parser procps sed tar util-linux wget xz zip
-* **Debian/-derived Linux**: binutils bzip2 clzip cmake coreutils curl findutils g++ gawk gcc git grep gzip hostname libc6-dev libxml-parser-perl lzma make patch perl procps sed tar util-linux wget xz-utils zip
-* **OpenSUSE Linux**: binutils bzip2 cmake coreutils curl findutils gawk gcc gcc-c++ git grep gzip hostname linux-glibc-devel lzip make patch perl perl-XML-Parser procps sed tar util-linux wget xz zip
-
-> N.B. Busybox is not supported.
-
-> N.B. Some packages (*coreutils*, *grep*, and *tar*, among others) override
-Alpine's BusyBox utilities of the same name, as the latter are either non-
-conformant or defective.
-
-## Building a midipix distribution
-Install the above listed build-time dependencies, clone this repository, and run the
-following command line within the latter:
-
-```shell
-./build.sh -a nt64 -b release -D minipix,zipdist -P -v
-```
-
-## Non-exhaustive list of build variables
-The following variables are primarily defined in ``midipix.env`` and may be overriden
-on a per-build basis on the command-line after the last argument, if any, e.g.:
-
-```shell
-./build.sh -a nt64 -b release -D minipix,zipdist -P -v PREFIX_ROOT="${HOME}/midipix_tmp"
-```
-
-Furthermore, ``${HOME}/midipix_build.vars``, ``${HOME}/.midipix_build.vars``, and/or
-``../midipix_build.vars`` are sourced during build initialisation and may contain
-additional overrides, particularly ``${DEFAULT_GITROOT_HEAD}``.
-
-| Variable name | Default value | Description |
-| ---------------- | ------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
-| ARCH | nt64 | Target 32-bit (nt32) or 64-bit (nt64) architecture |
-| BUILD | debug | Build w/ debugging (debug) or release compiler flags |
-| BUILD_DLCACHEDIR | ${PREFIX_ROOT}/dlcache | Absolute pathname to package downloads cache root directory |
-| BUILD_WORKDIR | ${PREFIX}/tmp | Absolute pathname to temporary package build root directory |
-| PREFIX | ${PREFIX_ROOT}/${ARCH}/${BUILD} | Absolute pathname to architecture- & build type-specific build root directory |
-| PREFIX_CROSS | ${PREFIX}/${DEFAULT_TARGET} | Absolute pathname to toolchain root directory |
-| PREFIX_MINGW32 | ${PREFIX}/x86_64-w64-mingw32 | Absolute pathname to MinGW toolchain root directory |
-| PREFIX_MINIPIX | ${PREFIX}/minipix | Absolute pathname to minipix distribution root directory |
-| PREFIX_NATIVE | ${PREFIX}/native | Absolute pathname to cross-compiled packages root directory |
-| PREFIX_ROOT | ${HOME}/midipix | Absolute pathname to top-level directory |
-| PREFIX_RPM | ${PREFIX}/rpm | Absolute pathname to package RPM archive root directory |
-
-## Common tasks
-Rebuild set of packages in isolation, along w/ their dependencies, if any, as needed,
-or forcibly, respectively:
-```shell
-./build.sh [ ... ] -r mc,zsh
-./build.sh [ ... ] -r \*mc,zsh
-./build.sh [ ... ] -r \*\*mc,zsh
-```
-
-Rebuild entire build group:
-```shell
-./build.sh [ ... ] -r ALL native_runtime
-```
-
-## References
-* ``Sun, 25 Apr 2016 09:04:08 +0000 [1]`` musl FAQ
-
-vim:tw=0
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+> N.B. If you're interested in building Midipix using this script, please join the project's
+IRC channel #midipix on Freenode and ask for the address of the internal repositories.
+
+> N.B. If in doubt, consult the fault-tolerant & highly optimised 3D laser show-equipped
+usage screen w/ ./build.sh -h or a hungry lion might eat you alive.
+
+A Midipix distribution consists of the following:
+* the native Midipix toolchain, consisting of perk, gcc, its dependencies,
+ and binutils,
+* musl, a lightweight, fast, simple, and free libc[1] used by Midipix,
+* the Midipix runtime components that bridge the gap between the libc and the
+ executive subsystems of all Windows NT-derived Windows OS starting with and
+ including Windows XP, and
+* a steadily increasing number of 3rd party open source packages, as expected in
+ any modern POSIX-compliant \*nix environment, including GNU coreutils, shells,
+ libraries such as ncurses, libressl, as well as Perl and Python.
+
+## Build-time dependencies
+* **Alpine Linux**: binutils bzip2 cmake coreutils curl findutils g++ gawk gcc git grep gzip libc-dev linux-headers lzip make musl-dev net-tools patch perl perl-xml-parser procps sed tar util-linux wget xz zip
+* **Debian/-derived Linux**: binutils bzip2 clzip cmake coreutils curl findutils g++ gawk gcc git grep gzip hostname libc6-dev libxml-parser-perl lzma make patch perl procps sed tar util-linux wget xz-utils zip
+* **OpenSUSE Linux**: binutils bzip2 cmake coreutils curl findutils gawk gcc gcc-c++ git grep gzip hostname linux-glibc-devel lzip make patch perl perl-XML-Parser procps sed tar util-linux wget xz zip
+
+> N.B. Busybox is not supported.
+
+> N.B. Some packages (*coreutils*, *grep*, and *tar*, among others) override
+Alpine's BusyBox utilities of the same name, as the latter are either non-
+conformant or defective.
+
+## Building a midipix distribution
+Install the above listed build-time dependencies, clone this repository, and run the
+following command line within the latter:
+
+```shell
+./build.sh -a nt64 -b release -D minipix,zipdist -P -v
+```
+
+## Non-exhaustive list of build variables
+The following variables are primarily defined in ``midipix.env`` and may be overriden
+on a per-build basis on the command-line after the last argument, if any, e.g.:
+
+```shell
+./build.sh -a nt64 -b release -D minipix,zipdist -P -v PREFIX_ROOT="${HOME}/midipix_tmp"
+```
+
+Furthermore, ``${HOME}/midipix_build.vars``, ``${HOME}/.midipix_build.vars``, and/or
+``../midipix_build.vars`` are sourced during build initialisation and may contain
+additional overrides, particularly ``${DEFAULT_GITROOT_HEAD}``.
+
+| Variable name | Default value | Description |
+| ---------------- | ------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
+| ARCH | nt64 | Target 32-bit (nt32) or 64-bit (nt64) architecture |
+| BUILD | debug | Build w/ debugging (debug) or release compiler flags |
+| BUILD_DLCACHEDIR | ${PREFIX_ROOT}/dlcache | Absolute pathname to package downloads cache root directory |
+| BUILD_WORKDIR | ${PREFIX}/tmp | Absolute pathname to temporary package build root directory |
+| PREFIX | ${PREFIX_ROOT}/${ARCH}/${BUILD} | Absolute pathname to architecture- & build type-specific build root directory |
+| PREFIX_CROSS | ${PREFIX}/${DEFAULT_TARGET} | Absolute pathname to toolchain root directory |
+| PREFIX_MINGW32 | ${PREFIX}/x86_64-w64-mingw32 | Absolute pathname to MinGW toolchain root directory |
+| PREFIX_MINIPIX | ${PREFIX}/minipix | Absolute pathname to minipix distribution root directory |
+| PREFIX_NATIVE | ${PREFIX}/native | Absolute pathname to cross-compiled packages root directory |
+| PREFIX_ROOT | ${HOME}/midipix | Absolute pathname to top-level directory |
+| PREFIX_RPM | ${PREFIX}/rpm | Absolute pathname to package RPM archive root directory |
+
+## Common tasks
+Rebuild set of packages in isolation, along w/ their dependencies, if any, as needed,
+or forcibly, respectively:
+```shell
+./build.sh [ ... ] -r mc,zsh
+./build.sh [ ... ] -r \*mc,zsh
+./build.sh [ ... ] -r \*\*mc,zsh
+```
+
+Rebuild entire build group:
+```shell
+./build.sh [ ... ] -r ALL native_runtime
+```
+
+## References
+* ``Sun, 25 Apr 2016 09:04:08 +0000 [1]`` musl FAQ
+
+vim:tw=0