Re: [Libusb-devel] CRLF in files checked out on Windows

[Xiaofan C. <xia...@gm...>]

On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 9:03 PM, Segher Boessenkool
<se...@ke...> wrote:
>> It really sucks bigtime that MSYS autoconf can not handle CRLF. :(
>
> Yes, and someone who cares about msys should figure out what is
> happening there.  It makes no sense at all to have some workarounds
> for something that might or not be abug, is not even understood by
> us, that will affect everything and everyone.
>

I think you guys have some mis-understandings about MSys
and autotools.

Firstly you should actually call them MinGW
autoconf and not MSys autoconf. MSys autoconf
is to created MSys dependent applications and this is not what
we want, we want to create Windows native binary.

Secondly MSys still use shell scripts similar to Unix and
Cygwin, you can call it a mini shell environment but nevertheless,
it is similar to Unix and Cygwin when it comes to shell scripts.

If you ever use MinGW/MSys, and open the include
files or the shell scripts (many under the bin dir
are shell scripts), you will notice they are not
CRLF.

If you think CRLF is native and MinGW/MSys
is Windows native and thus should use CRLF
for everything, then you are totally wrong.

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Xiaofan