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

[Thomas Dickey]

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

> Thomas,
> Sorry if I was unclear.  I am using "^M" here to represent the single byte 
> with an ASCII value 0x0D / 13 decimal, carriage return.   I was not referring 
> to the escape sequence "^" plus "M".

This is what I was suggesting (something to consider):

ac_cr=`echo X |tr X '\015'`

> Thomas Dickey wrote:
> > 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'

--
Thomas E. Dickey
http://invisible-island.net
ftp://invisible-island.net