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From: Rugxulo <rugxulo AT gmail DOT com>
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Subject: request for build / testing of upcoming Autoconf 2.64 from git
Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2009 23:50:25 -0700 (PDT)
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If anybody smart here wants to waste a few hours, here's a suggestion:

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from	Ralf Wildenhues
date	Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 1:21 AM
subject	Re: DJGPP autoconf 2.59 bug (possibly change '\\r' -> '\r')

Hello Rugxulo,

thanks for the bug report.

* Rugxulo wrote on Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 06:49:08PM CEST:
>
> configure: creating ./config.status
> config.status: creating Makefile
> gawk: ./confs12910/subs.awk:1: BEGIN {\r
> gawk: ./confs12910/subs.awk:1:        ^ backslash not last character on line
> config.status: error: could not create Makefile


> In other words, this part of "configure" seems to be wrong:
>
> -----------------------------------------------------
> ac_cr=''
> ac_cs_awk_cr=`$AWK 'BEGIN { print "a\rb" }' </dev/null 2>/dev/null`
> if test "$ac_cs_awk_cr" = "a${ac_cr}b"; then
>   ac_cs_awk_cr='\\r'             # should probably be '\r'

Yes, you are right.  This bug has already been fixed in commit
bc9bc82a1
which has happened after 2.63, so it is not in a stable release yet.

It would be helpful if you or somebody else could grab the current git
Autoconf sources, build it and run its testsuite on DJGPP and report
the
results here.  That would go a long way in ensuring that 2.64 works
well
on this system.

Cheers,
Ralf
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