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Re: problem with conditionals and \ separator in SOURCES


From: Tom Tromey
Subject: Re: problem with conditionals and \ separator in SOURCES
Date: 06 May 2001 12:45:18 -0600

>>>>> "Lorenzo" == Lorenzo Bettini <address@hidden> writes:

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

Lorenzo> You're right: line endings are to blame... the funny thing is
Lorenzo> that I got the sources from a Linux CVS server, and the
Lorenzo> uncorrect line endings seem to have been added during the
Lorenzo> dowloading... (actually I used WinCVS, so this is quite
Lorenzo> likely).

My question now is what is the right thing to do?

We could probably modify automake to ignore weird line endings easily
enough.  That is, we would treat \r\n the same as \n.  Is there any
reason not to do this?

Tom



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