On Mon, 2003-12-01 at 12:55, Bernhard Lang wrote:
> > Feel free to use already existing tools like dos2unix / fromdos (vs.
> > unix2dos / todos) usually shipped with Unix-like OS distributions. The
> > relevant Debian package is e.g. called sysutils.
> 
> Of course, but this means one file version for one system, one for the
> next and so on. This yields exactly to the sort of problems into which Don
> got. As *clean* I would consider one input file for all OSs, i.e. in this
> case a program which is happy with all different forms of line end
> definitions.

It's possible to call fromdos from your build scripts, Makefile, etc.
Personally, I took the approach you described above to package musixtex
for Debian. The solution is easy to automate.

Besides, I don't think hacking either glibc or source packages (or what
did you mean with your code excerpts?) is an easy standard approach. :-)

bye,
  Roland

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