Re: \r\n or \n line endings in make.bat?

[Kevin Greiner <kgreiner@xpediantsolutions.com>]

Frank Schmitt <usereplyto@Frank-Schmitt.net> writes:

> Graham Murray <graham@gmurray.org.uk> writes:
>
>> Reiner Steib <4.uce.03.r.s@nurfuerspam.de> writes:
>>
>>> What happens if Lars builds the nightly snapshot *.tar.gz or a
>>> release on his Unix box with make.bat included with Unix line
>>> terminators?  Will a windows user be able to execute make.bat
>>> successfully?
>>
>> Windows should have no problem with unix line endings in make.bat
>
> Just tested it and it has problems. (It just doesn't work, because the
> interpreter of Win 9x, command.com, thinks the file is one long line).
>
> Make.bat _must_ be dos mode, and I'd also vote for flagging it binary.

Reiner makes an excellent point that make.bat has to always have DOS
terminators so that distributions built on Unix will work right on
WinX.  My concern was that I've run into more than one file with
newlines applied inconsistently.  Still, it appears that flagging
make.bat as binary appears best.

We'll have to simply be diligent about correcting any errors that
creep in.

Kevin