Re: cygwin -mno-cygwin AC_CHECK_SIZEOF

[Eric Blake]

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According to Ralf Wildenhues on 12/1/2006 6:57 AM:
>> Avoiding the troublesome line ending seems best to me.
> 
> How does this mesh with
> <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf-patches/2001-09/msg00043.html>
> or formulated differently, if we're going to break POSIX compatibility,
> do we at least have sufficient evidence that all known systems cope with
> it?

POSIX requires cat to handle all files, not just text.  And I can't find
anywhere in POSIX that requires output handed to command substitution to
be a text file; command substitution is worded as removing any sequence of
one or more newlines, but nothing seems to say that a trailing newline
must have been present.  And autoconf only uses the file created by
AC_LANG_INT_SAVE in `cat conftest.val`.

> 
> FWIW, the patch in that thread undid a previous change that removed the
> line ending.

Yes, I think that reverting the older patch and removing the \n is safe
according to POSIX rules.

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