Re: configure-more.zip

[Lennart Borgman]

Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> <rant>
> Why send it as a .zip file in a binary attachment, when all you want
> to send is plain text for inclusion in configure.bat?
> </rant>
>  
Because sending a bat-file was not allowed.

> Finally, I think the Windows build needs neither `find' nor `xargs'.
> Can you tell where you saw them used?
>  
When building info files I believed, but that may be wrong. I might also 
have been when I was trying to make things working using MSYS I saw that 
and draw a bad conclusion. But all this was quite a while ago.

> Therefore, I suggest the following strategy for solving the -kb issue:
> put a small C program into the nt subdirectory which would read
> nt/configure.bat, nt/nmake.defs, and nt/makefile.w32-in in binary mode
> and make sure they have the right line endings; if they don't, this
> program would fail.  Then have this program invoked by "make bootstrap"
> in the nt directory.
>
> Would you like to implement this solution?
>  
You mean build and run this program at the end of configure.bat? Would 
not "make bootstrap" be too late? Yes, it seems like a better solution. 
I will try.