Re: problem with conditionals and \ separator in SOURCES

[Tom Tromey]

>>>>> "Tim" == Tim Van Holder <address@hidden> writes:

>> Am I doing something wrong?
>> Notice that this problem only takes place with cygwin

Tim> Might be an EOL issue; sed is notorious for not recognizing a trailing \
Tim> in a DOS text file (it sees \ + CR + NL).
Tim> Try converting the file to Unix text.

Tim> Note: this is just a hunch.

Sounds like a good hunch to me.

Automake 1.4 didn't try to deal with DOS-style line endings correctly.

For that matter I don't know whether the cvs automake does.  It does
set `binmode' on its output, but it might not handle \r\n in its input
too well.

Lorenzo, can you check this?

Tom