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

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-08-06 10:45:29

At 07:58 AM 8/6/2003, John Maddock wrote:
 >> 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 ]

The way we've been doing it for releases is to do a CVS export with the 
option for Unix line endings. Once we started with that approach, the 
complaints stopped.

--Beman