Re: nt/makefile.w32-in

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

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2006 11:37:29 +0000
>> From: Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>
>> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, 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  <andrewi@gnu.org>
>
> 	    * 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.