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

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

>>> Classic "more" does not work correctly.  "cat" does not work.
>
> I just tried them now against a CRLF source file.  I don't see any
> problems.
> What doesn't work for you?  (sys-apps/util-linux-2.17.2 ,
> sys-apps/coreutils-8.5 , respectively)  I checked the sourcefile with
> hexdump -C |less for 0D 0A, just to be sure that the test was valid.

Your "more" is just a symlink to "less".  "Real" more will show a ^M.

I cannot actually think how cat would do the "wrong" thing here; I thought
I remembered it messing up, maybe it doesn't.

>>> (when you have unicode on the first line, in some cases,
>>> for example)).
>
> Ok, I admit unicode is not really a concern for me.  I can see how it
> would
> be for other people.

People use it to write their name, like in the copyright message, which
usually is at the start of the file.

>>> "grep" does not work.
>
> How so?  It works for me.  Again, just tried it, and it found what I
> searched on.  (sys-apps/grep-2.5.4-r1)

grep 'something$'

will not work because it considers the CR as a normal character.

>>> Won't notepad mutilate all files with a UTF marker at the start?
>
> I have no idea.  Never been a concern to me.  I don't think Unicode
> belongs
> in source code, anyway.

Those markers are not valid UTF, and I'm told notepad writes them all
the time.  I have no idea, I don't use mswindows.

In the unix world, almost everyone uses UTF-8 these days, not ASCII or
8859-1 or things like that.

>>> It sounds to me like the default config of msysgit should work fine for
>>> you.
>
> Meaning specifically which settings of autocrlf and safecrlf?

I don't really know.  I'll ask some people from other projects that have
mswindows users.

> Keep in mind my configuration was working just fine for 7-8 months until
> the
> August .gitattributes patch came along.

That's a pretty compelling argument that that patch was a mistake.  But
I'd like to hear more other people as well; let's solve this once and for
all, not ping-pong between twenty different versions that all do not work
for someone :-)


Segher