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Re: problem with conditionals and \ separator in SOURCES
From: |
Tom Tromey |
Subject: |
Re: problem with conditionals and \ separator in SOURCES |
Date: |
10 Apr 2001 12:37:02 -0600 |
>>>>> "Tim" == Tim Van Holder <address@hidden> 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.
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?
Tom