* 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


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