Re: [Libusb-devel] >=autoconf-2.63 no grok multiline AC_CONFIG_FILES?

[Segher B. <se...@ke...>]

> And I'm really starting to wonder how committed we are to our users when
> it looks like, there again, we are reluctant about introducing *simple*
> 30 seconds fixes in our tree, and instead foster the "upgrade your tools
> / don't use tool X" approach. We know exactly how to avoid the issue,
> and it's trivial to fix, so let's help our users instead of placing yet
> another set of demands on them dammit!

I don't think anyone is against that simple .gitattributes patch; it is
safe enough for "sane" platforms.

People are worried about the *actual* problem though: somehow your git
port and also the rest of your build environment is in two minds about
what a line ending looks like.  This is quite likely to cause a lot of
other problems as well.

I would say that .gitattributes -crlf thing is fine, but I don't really
want to see twenty other patches to support messed-up code checkouts ;-)


Segher