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 23:48:44 +0100 Message-ID: <458B0F4C.90909@student.lu.se> References: <458A71F9.2050709@gnu.org> <458AFA12.4010700@student.lu.se> 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 1166741353 26385 80.91.229.10 (21 Dec 2006 22:49:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2006 22:49:13 +0000 (UTC) Cc: lekktu@gmail.com, jasonr@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Dec 21 23:49:09 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 1GxWii-0001hP-Po for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 21 Dec 2006 23:49:01 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GxWii-0003x6-5K for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 21 Dec 2006 17:49:00 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GxWiW-0003wU-47 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Dec 2006 17:48:48 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GxWiV-0003vk-3y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Dec 2006 17:48:47 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GxWiU-0003vf-PU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Dec 2006 17:48:46 -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 1GxWiS-00052v-7g; Thu, 21 Dec 2006 17:48:44 -0500 Original-Received: from c83-254-145-24.bredband.comhem.se ([83.254.145.24]:62369 helo=[127.0.0.1]) by ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1GxWiQ-0002Ad-54; Thu, 21 Dec 2006 23:48:42 +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 1GxWiQ-0002Ad-54. X-Scan-Signature: ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net 1GxWiQ-0002Ad-54 284ac6b87921e82ebedff81692b37612 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:64072 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2006 22:18:10 +0100 >> From: Lennart Borgman >> CC: Jason Rumney , lekktu@gmail.com, >> emacs-devel@gnu.org >> >>> 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? >> > > Probably, some version of Make didn't like Unix EOLs. > > >> nd/Makefile now has mixed line endings and that looks fragile to me. >> > > After the release, I will convert gmake.defs and nmake.defs to DOS EOL > format. I don't want to touch them now, as no one complained that it > interferes with the build. > I guess you are pretty sure that this is the right thing to do. Why not do it now then? Problems that could occur now just affects people checking out code, but if we release it with the problem it can affect those users trying to build Emacs quite a long time afterwards.