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

[Michael P. <mic...@gm...>]

Segher Boessenkool wrote:
>> Ideally, the repo should work as-is for both unix and mswindows users if
>> they both use tools with sane defaults.  If we can get there, great!

Certainly, and if someone figures this out, I'll give it a shot again.  But
I haven't seen anything changed since I last discussed this with Pete four
months ago.  Not blaming anyone; just saying I haven't tried again.


>> > and the
>> > bash/autotools/make-specific stuff as LF.
>>
>> I still don't understand why in your configuration those are checked
>> out as CRLF, but other text files are just LF (or, why don't do these
>> other files give similar problems?)

I haven't checked, but I presume some of those need to be LF.  Leaving them
LF doesn't help mingw/cygwin people as much, but the alternative is likely
even worse.


>> Maybe you should check out _all_ text files as LF?

Eh, Linux editors/viewers seem smart enough.  Some Windows
editors/viewers/difftools are particularly brain-dead with regard to line
endings.  And I'm NOT really talking about development environments or
compilers.  Somebody just wants to LOOK at source/patch, or make a simple
CHANGE to docs, and they can't use certain editors/viewers on Windows.
Thus, anything that can be CRLF probably should be, since the other OSes
handle non-native formats better.  But see above for files that may need to
be LF.

Michael