Re: [boost] Re: libs/config/configure screwed up in DOS format in 1.30.1

From: John Maddock (jm_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-08-06 06:58:53

> Fixed now.  I wonder if it really ought to be checked in as binary so
> this doesn't happen?

Personally I think that would cause even more problems (for me at least),
note that there are plenty of other files that need the \r's stripping in
order for them to work on Unix, in fact some pre-processors (some versions
of gcc for example) can't even cope with \r's in header files (if there's a
\r between a \ and a \n).

The only complete solution is to make sure that all text files have their
\r's stripped before producing the tar.gz file.

[ footnote - one way to do this is with the new bcp tool - something like:

bcp --boost=boost-path --unix-lines --cvs "." destination-path

will produce a clean copy of all of the boost cvs with \r's stripped from
text files - we could probably even write a Jamfile that would automate the
release process come to that. -- end footnote ]

John.