On Tue, 5 Dec 2000, Kevin P Roth wrote:

> I noticed a few funny new-line characters in other files. For example,
> all three newly contributed makefiles for VC6 have some extra
> Carriage-Returns (\r in C, or ^M when viewing in a Win32-emacs). For
> example, in lib/makefile.vc6. I see one at the end of lines 7, 9, 125,
> 348 and 349 (that was a quick scan, I might have missed one or two).

They are, after all, DOS/Windows newlines and the VC++ is a Windows compiler
so I can't see that they would cause any harm.

> if I download using WinCVS 1.1b16, it tries to convert the Unix
> end-of-lines (\n) to Windows-style end-of-lines (\r\n) and then nmake
> gets really confused when it sees \r\r\n on the end of a line - it
> refuses to compile...

Well that sounds like a WinCVS bug rather than anything else. Isn't it?

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