Re: nt/makefile.w32-in

[Lennart Borgman]

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2006 22:18:10 +0100
> > From: Lennart Borgman <address@hidden>
> > CC: Jason Rumney <address@hidden>,  address@hidden, 
> >  address@hidden
> >     
> > >     2000-09-03  Andrew Innes  <address@hidden>
> > >
> > >             * makefile.w32-in: Change to DOS line endings.
> > >
> > > So I guess there _was_ a good reason for this, at least in the past,
> > > and we better leave it that way, at least until after the release.
> > >       
> > Could the reason be that the output from configure.bat has DOS line 
> > endings?
> >     
>
> Probably, some version of Make didn't like Unix EOLs.
>
>   
> > nd/Makefile now has mixed line endings and that looks fragile to me.
> >     
>
> After the release, I will convert gmake.defs and nmake.defs to DOS EOL
> format.  I don't want to touch them now, as no one complained that it
> interferes with the build.
>   

I guess you are pretty sure that this is the right thing to do. Why not 
do it now then? Problems that could occur now just affects people 
checking out code, but if we release it with the problem it can affect 
those users trying to build Emacs quite a long time afterwards.