From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lennart Borgman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Bootstrap fails on w32 Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 14:55:31 +0200 Message-ID: <42932443.7030106@student.lu.se> References: <428FB183.3000209@student.lu.se> <4290EDA8.7020401@student.lu.se> <85psvjyli5.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1116940305 14368 80.91.229.2 (24 May 2005 13:11:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 13:11:45 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue May 24 15:11:41 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DaZAA-0004Xq-LG for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 24 May 2005 15:09:38 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DaZDp-00079K-O5 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 24 May 2005 09:13:25 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DaZ8r-0004EM-An for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 24 May 2005 09:08:17 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DaZ8q-0004Dx-Hj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 24 May 2005 09:08:16 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DaZ7X-0003Rn-83 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 24 May 2005 09:06:55 -0400 Original-Received: from [81.228.8.83] (helo=pne-smtpout1-sn2.hy.skanova.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DaYwn-0003mP-S6; Tue, 24 May 2005 08:55:50 -0400 Original-Received: from [83.249.200.94] (83.249.200.94) by pne-smtpout1-sn2.hy.skanova.net (7.2.059.6) id 42930EDE00006F0F; Tue, 24 May 2005 14:55:37 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-To: Jason Rumney In-Reply-To: X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:37567 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:37567 Jason Rumney wrote: >David Kastrup writes: > > > >>Stupid question: why are the files stored into the repository with DOS >>line endings? >> >> > >Those files require DOS line ends. >The release is checked out on a GNU machine. > > I have a (maybe sufficiently humble) suggestion: As far as I understand it is the .bat files that are special. The makefiles are not. Why then not handle the .bat file separately? Can't they be stored as binary files in the repository? I do not know CVS but I guess my humble suggestion creates some problems when comparing files in CVS and on the pc. Is it easy to workaround? Is it then acceptable?