Mail Archives: cygwin/2006/12/01/08:58:29
* Eric Blake wrote on Fri, Dec 01, 2006 at 02:43:10PM CET:
> According to Bob Rossi on 12/1/2006 5:28 AM:
> >
> > I really think this is the current best solution, that is, to modify
> > autoconf to not use cat. Either that, or simply don't put the \n in the
> > AC_CHECK_SIZEOF macro. I'm not sure why that is done in the first place.
>
> Avoiding the troublesome line ending seems best to me.
How does this mesh with
<http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf-patches/2001-09/msg00043.html>
or formulated differently, if we're going to break POSIX compatibility,
do we at least have sufficient evidence that all known systems cope with
it?
FWIW, the patch in that thread undid a previous change that removed the
line ending.
(I vaguely remember assuming some issues in Libtool with passing things
without a newline; alas, I never got to the bottom of that, and forgot
about the details since.)
Cheers,
Ralf
> 2006-12-01 Eric Blake <ebb9 AT byu DOT net>
>
> * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_LANG_INT_SAVE): Avoid newline, to aid in
> cross-compiling from cygwin to mingw.
> Reported by Bob Rossi.
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