> From: rgm@gnu.org
> To: eliz@gnu.org
> Subject: Re: Can't build latest emacs on MSW + CRLF display issue
> Date: Sun, 25 Aug 2013 15:40:44 -0400
> CC: vincent.b.1@hotmail.fr; emacs-devel@gnu.org; karl@freefriends.org
> 
> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> >> If you don't want to remove this old method (I really don't get this,
> >> but we've been over this before), can it at least print a big fat
> >> warning when it starts, maybe even with a "press return to continue at
> >> your own risk" or somesuch. (Maybe it does this already.)
> >
> > Feel free to add that, I don't want to invest even a few seconds of my
> > time on this. 
> 
> I'd much rather remove it all together, but you won't allow it.
> Therefore we are stuck in this state.
> 

I took the freedom to make it a little more elaborate to stick to Glenn's first idea to have some kind of confirmation request and BIG FAT warning.
Well, it happened that when I wanted to commit my change I realized that Glenn had already done it, and so I just merged what I had done.
   Vincent.