Andreas Kurth wrote
>I wrote:
>>
>> Thanks. I'll test this with cygwin gcc again. I could make it the
>> default in future versions of pmx-unix.
>
>As a preprocessor directive ("#ifdef __CYGWIN__" should be OK) of
>course. Linux users: don't worry.
I have tried but failed to find a solution myself, and I haven't
received any suggestions for a solution from anyone else.
I don't understand what this gcc and CYGWIN stuff means very well, but I
don't think it's a good idea to make such a change in the official
distributions. AFAIK the problem that started this thread is due to an
ERROR in the g77 Win compiler; an error that doesn't seem to occur in
ANY other compiler, Unix, Linux, or DOS/Win. I don't want any
distributed version my code changed in a way that "has the side-effect
that the generated .tex file has inappropriate end of line characters."
just to compensate for the error in that one compiler. By all means,
feel free to make any changes you want in your private version if you
must, to make the compilation work with this one compiler, but please
don't mess anything up for others.
If using compiler directives to effect this change does not affect
average Joe who tries to compile the source for example in Linux by
typing "g77 source.f", then fine. But if average Joe has to use a
makefile to do the compilation, where he otherwise would not have to, or
do any more than he has to now, then my objection stands.
--Don Simons
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