Subject: Re: bin/36128: CRLF handling for make
To: None <gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org>
From: Alan Barrett <apb@cequrux.com>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 04/14/2007 16:26:45
On Fri, 06 Apr 2007, dholland@eecs.harvard.edu wrote:
> It was mentioned on #pkgsrc irc that our make doesn't handle makefiles
> that have embedded carriage returns (DOS-style CR/LF end of lines)...
> ...and there seems no particular reason it shouldn't, since at least
> one such makefile seems to exist in the wild.

I am not at all convinced that this is a good idea.  I think that people
who write their Makefiles under DOS should convert them to unix file
format before trying to use them under NetBSD.

before running make.

--apb (Alan Barrett)