Re: configure-more.zip

[Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se>]

Eli Zaretskii wrote:

><rant>
>Why send it as a .zip file in a binary attachment, when all you want
>to send is plain text for inclusion in configure.bat?
></rant>
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Because sending a bat-file was not allowed.

>Finally, I think the Windows build needs neither `find' nor `xargs'.
>Can you tell where you saw them used?
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When building info files I believed, but that may be wrong. I might also 
have been when I was trying to make things working using MSYS I saw that 
and draw a bad conclusion. But all this was quite a while ago.

>Therefore, I suggest the following strategy for solving the -kb issue:
>put a small C program into the nt subdirectory which would read
>nt/configure.bat, nt/nmake.defs, and nt/makefile.w32-in in binary mode
>and make sure they have the right line endings; if they don't, this
>program would fail.  Then have this program invoked by "make bootstrap"
>in the nt directory.
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>Would you like to implement this solution?
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You mean build and run this program at the end of configure.bat? Would 
not "make bootstrap" be too late? Yes, it seems like a better solution. 
I will try.