On 2/16/2011 6:19 PM, Guenter Knauf wrote: >> >> Which is the sane thing to do. In the windows world, Cygwin is the one >> that does everything wrong by default, making it really hard to use in >> conjunction with native tools. MinGW plays much nicer there. But its >> shell not handling text line endings correctly is a bug. > well, might be - but remember that its not only the shell, but a bunch of > autoconf tools > which then also would need to be modified to accept CRLF ...
I have /always/ strongly believed that invoking autoconf on unusual platforms is a waste of time and energy. Provided it works on Solaris (hardly) and/or Linux (usually) the resulting files are what is important.
