[CentOS] More on CentOS autotools bug

On Sun, 10 Jul 2011, Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote:

> On 7/8/11, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 7/8/2011 9:45 AM, John Hodrien wrote:
>>>
>>> I was curious, so *did* find out what the cause was, and it's entirely not
>>> CentOS's fault.  It's very hard to shoot blindly given that the cause was
>>> likely not to be CentOS.  That only left his autoconf files, and tracing
>>> configure made it quite easy to find.
>>>
>>
>> So he's done something non-standard that he doesn't remember on the RH
>> system where he claims it works????
>
> Specifically somebody edited the files on a Windows machine and the
> process choked on the CR/LF

Yes, but that also means the assertion that it built fine on Redhat and so
must be a CentOS problem was clearly untrue.

Vague description of problem where some of what you're being vague about is in
fact not true really doesn't help people track down your problems.

jh