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

[Steven R. Loomis]

That works only on ASCII based platforms, and it requires tr (which 
wasn't formerly required, according to the thread quoted below).

-s

Thomas Dickey wrote:
> 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'