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: nt/makefile.w32-in Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2006 22:18:10 +0100 Message-ID: <458AFA12.4010700@student.lu.se> References: <458A71F9.2050709@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: dough.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 1166735920 9124 80.91.229.10 (21 Dec 2006 21:18:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2006 21:18:40 +0000 (UTC) Cc: lekktu@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, Jason Rumney Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Dec 21 22:18:39 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by dough.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1GxVJC-0001WH-RJ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 21 Dec 2006 22:18:35 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GxVJC-00024D-8a for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 21 Dec 2006 16:18:34 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GxVIx-00020c-Hl for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Dec 2006 16:18:19 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GxVIu-0001vm-DB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Dec 2006 16:18:17 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GxVIu-0001vL-3E for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Dec 2006 16:18:16 -0500 Original-Received: from [80.76.149.212] (helo=ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1GxVIq-0005id-4g; Thu, 21 Dec 2006 16:18:12 -0500 Original-Received: from c83-254-145-24.bredband.comhem.se ([83.254.145.24]:62149 helo=[127.0.0.1]) by ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1GxVIo-0002Gr-40; Thu, 21 Dec 2006 22:18:10 +0100 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (Windows/20061207) Original-To: Eli Zaretskii In-Reply-To: X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 0661-1, 2006-12-21), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Scan-Result: No virus found in message 1GxVIo-0002Gr-40. X-Scan-Signature: ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net 1GxVIo-0002Gr-40 2bf656c97b882b68be772dd09cfdc12a 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:64068 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2006 11:37:29 +0000 >> From: Jason Rumney >> Cc: Eli Zaretskii , emacs-devel@gnu.org >> >> but those directories are not used by the Windows port, so there is no >> reason for anyone to edit them on Windows (except for msdos, but I guess >> either nothing has changed for a long time, or Eli checks out everything >> with Unix line ends so hasn't seen the problem). >> > > I always checkout with -kb (and that's the advice nt/INSTALL gives). > > But the original question still stands: is there any reason not to > convert nt/makefile.w32-in to Unix EOLs? Will something in the build > procedure break? > > [...time passes...] Ah, I see this entry in nt/ChangeLog: > > 2000-09-03 Andrew Innes > > * makefile.w32-in: Change to DOS line endings. > > So I guess there _was_ a good reason for this, at least in the past, > and we better leave it that way, at least until after the release. > Could the reason be that the output from configure.bat has DOS line endings? nd/Makefile now has mixed line endings and that looks fragile to me.