http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=45888
--- Comment #30 from Jorn Wolfgang Rennecke <amylaar at gcc dot gnu.org> 2010-12-10 02:04:26 UTC --- (In reply to comment #29) > gcc/tm.texi and gcc/tmp3-tm.texi did not have same same line ending. In fact, > gcc/tm.texi contains 'ASCII English text, with very long lines' while > gcc/tmp3-tm.texi has 'ASCII English text' only when examined with 'file' > command. In addition, gcc/tm.texi is slightly larger in size (507 KB) than > gcc/tmp3-tm.texi (493 KB). I don't understand this at all. The \r removal works for gcc/tm.texi, but not for gcc/tmp3-tm.texi? And yet the latter is smaller? Or does the latter have no line endings at all because you somehow untarred the source file with MacOs 9 style line endings? What size is your $(srcdir)/doc/tm.texi ? How many lines do the varyous tm.texi files have? (wc should tell) Could you show the start of these files with od, like shown in comment 13?