[CentOS] There ain't a CentOS autotools bug!

Fri Jul 8 22:57:57 UTC 2011
Denniston, Todd A CIV NAVSURFWARCENDIV Crane <todd.denniston at navy.mil>

> -----Original Message-----
> From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On
> Behalf Of Lars Hecking
> Sent: Friday, July 08, 2011 18:40
> To: centos at centos.org
> Subject: Re: [CentOS] There ain't a CentOS autotools bug!
> 
> 
> > Ah that Windows. Someone should incorporate dos2unix conversion as
an
> > standard step in some of the make/config process.
> 
>  On the contrary - something like this should not happen behind the
> user's
>  back, considering the platform where configure scripts are built can
> be
>  different from the target platform.
> 
>  I'd also love to teach vim how sto how those pesky ^M characters. It
> doesn't,
>  and that's perceived user-friendliness gone too far. Proper vi on
Unix
>  does the right thing.
> 

I believe I have seen vim do it, but only when some lines were CR-NL and
the others were NL, so there is probably a way to convince it to always
do it.