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Re: revisit: bare carriage return in status.m4 / configure
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Eric Blake |
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Re: revisit: bare carriage return in status.m4 / configure |
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Tue, 28 Oct 2008 05:39:35 -0600 |
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According to Ralf Wildenhues on 10/28/2008 12:42 AM:
>> +ac_cr=`echo X | tr X '\015'`
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> Are we going to ignore non-ASCII systems now?
Not in this particular case. The only use of $ac_cr is to decide whether
to initialize ac_cs_awk_cr to '\r' or "$ac_cr"; on non-ASCII systems, \015
is _not_ carriage return, which means on those systems, the use of
$ac_cs_awk_cr is idempotent (converting byte \015 to itself).
- --
Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well!
Eric Blake address@hidden
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