Re: Bootstrap fails on w32

[Daniel Brockman]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

>> IMHO CRLFs are not part of the file contents in case of text files --
>
> Is that really so?  Is there some legal opinion that changes in
> whitespace are not regarded as modifications?

Not just any changes in whitespace:  Change of line endings.
Similarily, I wouldn't say character encoding is part of the content.

>> just think of transferring it via ftp in `ascii' mode.
>
> If your source is a Unix or a GNU system, I don't think ASCII mode
> will help.

If the source is Windows and the target is Unix, CRLF pairs will
likely be translated into LF, and the other way around.

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Daniel Brockman <address@hidden>