Re: revisit: bare carriage return in status.m4 / configure

[Thomas Dickey]

On Mon, 27 Oct 2008, Steven R. Loomis wrote:

> Hello,
> autoconf 2.63 has worked well for our project (icu), except for an issue 
> with a bare carriage return (hereafter '^M') in status.m4 which shows up in 
> resulting configure scripts.  The line in question is:
>
> ac_cr='^M'
>
> If I am not misreading the git repository, the current development version 
> also has such a line.
>
> I found and read this discussion: 
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf-patches/2008-04/msg00007.html
> but, most of the later discussion seemed to be about preferring \r in the 
> output form over ^M.

That might not be portable enough (one workaround would be to use "tr" to 
construct the character from less troublesome text).

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