* Eric Blake wrote on Sat, Apr 05, 2008 at 02:40:23PM CEST: > > If CR is _not_ the EOL marker, then how would CR appear at the end of the > line?
It could be part of the EOL marker: a dos file read in unix mode. > Where are we doing input into $tmp/subs1.awk that could create a > spurious CR if the platform does not use CR? The configure.ac author may be. > And if CR is not EOL, then do we really need to escape intermediate CR > rather than treating it as a literal character? Yes, for awk we do. Some awks may throw an error otherwise, I forgot which, but it was discussed on autoconf-patches. Cheers, Ralf
