The following reply was made to PR bin/36128; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Alan Barrett <apb@cequrux.com>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: netbsd-bugs@NetBSD.org
Subject: Re: bin/36128: CRLF handling for make
Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2007 16:26:45 +0200

 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)