[geos-devel] SVN - Line Feeds

Paul Ramsey pramsey at refractions.net
Thu Aug 3 17:37:04 EDT 2006


As long as non-mingw windows compiles don't get screwed by having unix 
linefeeds...

Charlie Savage wrote:
> Okay, I've tracked down an issue caused by the move to SVN.
> 
> By default, SVN does not convert line feeds based on platform, unlike 
> CVS.  However, you can override this either by local setting on your 
> machine or by adding a property to each file.  For more information see:
> 
> http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.0/ch07s02.html#svn-ch-7-sect-2.3.5
> 
> It looks like in the automated move to SVN, every file was tagged with 
> svn:eol-style native.
> 
> So, on Windows, you get CR/LF while on *Nix its just Line Feed.  Thus 
> configure.in gets CR/LF which breaks autoconf on line 297 when compiling 
> under MingW.
> 
> It seems to me the best solution is to remove this property on every 
> file so code checks out the same on every system.  Alternatively, I can 
> play with .configure.in to see if I can get it to work on both platforms 
> (since everything else seems to at least compile).
> 
> What should I do?
> 
> Charlie
> 
> 
> 
> 
> strk at refractions.net wrote:
>> On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 12:11:40PM -0600, Charlie Savage wrote:
>>> For GEOS 3 it would be really good to support mingw.  I have not been 
>>> able to compile the geos 3 head branch using migw for a long time - I 
>>> get a series of linker errors that I posted to the last about a month 
>>> ago.  Any help fixing them would be appreciated.
>>>
>>> Anyway, just tried again after the move to SVN.  And this time I 
>>> can't get past autogen didn't work.
>>>
>>> $ ./autogen.sh
>>> Running autoheader
>>> ' is already registered with AC_CONFIG_FILES.
>>> autoconf/status.m4:848: AC_CONFIG_FILES is expanded from...
>>> configure.in:297: 
>>
>> Could you try the version in CVS ? (just in case it's CR/NL issue).
>>
>> --strk;
>>
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