Tom Tromey wrote:
>
> >>>>> "Tim" == Tim Van Holder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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.
You're right: line endings are to blame... the funny thing is that I got
the sources from a Linux CVS server, and the uncorrect line endings seem
to have been added during the dowloading... (actually I used WinCVS, so
this is quite likely).
>
> 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?
I didn't understand this last point: what should I check? What is cvs
automake?
thanks
Lorenzo
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