Re: make check on Windows (MSYS), with patch

On 7/30/05, Brian Smith wrote:

On 7/30/05, Ross Paterson wrote:

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On Fri, Jul 29, 2005 at 06:17:59PM -0500, Brian Smith wrote:

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Anyway, the other parts of the patch are not useful without the newline patch because the newline problem causes every test to fail.

On second thoughts, shouldn't you have CR's in all the text files if you've configured your CVS client properly?

I think so, but "configure" and "xml2sgml" (and possibly other things) don't work correctly unless I use my CVS client's "Use Unix line endings" setting (I use TortoiseCVS). First, configure failed (I don't remember which step), and the only way I was able to solve it was by saving "configure.achttp://configure.ac" with Unix line endings (using Textpad). Then, sgml2xml failed, for the same reason.

Ross, you were right--please back out my patch for runstdtest. I have included a patch to configure.ac http://configure.ac and a patch for the docs/user_guide/Makefile.in that fixes the issues with newline problems. That way, using a "Use Unix line endings" option is not necessary. autoconf that comes with msysDTK does not escape line endings correctly inside of AC_OUTPUT and AC_CHECK_HEADERS when the line endings contain carriage returns; for AC_OUTPUT, the config.status field gets screwed up, and for AC_CHECK_HEADERS, something else gets screwed up (but I didn't check exactly what). Also, MSYS's sed apparently does not like carriage returns in any scripts that it is passed with its "-f" option. So, I changed the user guide's Makefile.in http://Makefile.in so that it generates and uses a carriage-return-free xml2sgml script. - Brian