Re: configure-more.zip

[Lennart Borgman]

Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> > This won't work. "make bootstrap" must be preceeded by "configure",
> > and if configure.bat does not have the right line ends, then that will
> > fail.
> >    
>
> This situation worries me less: if configure.bat fails to run, the
> user will know something is wrong with the batch file.  It's the
> mysterious error message produced by Make that prompted my suggestion.
> I've seen 2 Emacs maintainers trip on this just this last month.
>
> But if you have a better idea, I'm open to suggestions.
>
> (Btw, my testing indicates that cmd.exe from Windows 2K and XP
> succeeds running a batch file even if its lines end in the Unix-style
> single LF, and also if there's more than one CR character before the
> newline.)
>  
Running a bat file with unix style line ends:

- cmd.exe: Windows 2k: ok, XP: ok, NT: ok
- command.com: Window 2k: ok, others: ??

As I previously have said I suggested testing at the end of 
configure.bat should be a good solution. All that is needed is a small C 
program. Maybe this testing also should be repeated in the Makefile 
though to take care of redownloads.