Hello,
autoconf 2.63 has worked well for our project (icu), except for an
issue with a bare carriage return (hereafter '^M') in status.m4 which
shows up in resulting configure scripts. The line in question is:
ac_cr='^M'
If I am not misreading the git repository, the current development
version also has such a line.
I found and read this discussion:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf-patches/2008-04/msg00007.html
but, most of the later discussion seemed to be about preferring \r in
the output form over ^M.
This bare CR presents a potential problem and an actual one.
1. The potential problem is that configure could become mangled when
transferred across systems with different line endings or platform
encodings.
2. The current actual problem is that Subversion balks at merging the
'configure' script, as having 'inconsistent line endings'.
Are there any plans to change status.m4 so that a bare ^M doesn't show
up in configure scripts?
Thanks,
Steven
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