>>> "Tom" == Tom Tromey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Tom> A problem with line termination in automake was reported on the Tom> Classpath list. I don't understand why this happens, since in Tom> Automake::XFile we only call binmode when writing, not when reading. How does Automake 1.5d behave? The line termination handling has changed since 1.5. Basically, Automake now uses chomp() and never do horrible things like `substr($_, -1, 1) eq "\n"'. The perlport man page is very confusing about newline handling: in the same section it tells you that \r\n -> \n conversion is performed transparantly on i/o, and that you should use chomp() instead of chop() to trim newlines because they might take several characters... [...] -- Alexandre Duret-Lutz
