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juschri
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6 years ago
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dos2unix fails to change permissions when creating project from template

Hello, I have searched all over for an answer to my problem, and while I've found similar questions none of the answers have worked. I have followed the instructions in "The Nios II Embedded "Hello W...
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    NickWilliams
    5 years ago

    I also ran into this problem. I did some debugging and the problem is that the dos2unix command tries to change the UNIX filesystem permissions of the temporary file it creates; this fails for me in WSL.

    You need to tell WSL that it should allow these kinds of operations on the filesystem. You can do this as follows:

    1. Start your Ubuntu 18.04 LTS prompt
    2. Create/edit a file '/etc/wsl.conf'
    3. Add the following to '/etc/wsl.conf':
      [automount]
options = "metadata"
    4. Save the file.
    5. Reboot your computer.

    I have no idea why this works for some people but not others, but this worked for me and fixed the dos2unix permissions error; at which points I was able to create the BSP and everything else in Nios II EDS worked fine.