committing update to configure

[Bryan Blackburn]

On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 10:06:43PM -0600, Ryan Schmidt said:
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> On Nov 29, 2008, at 04:02, Jeremy Huddleston wrote:
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>> I had a small update to configure.ac that I wanted to push (below).
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> Looks good to me.
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>> I decided to regen configure since it was made with an old version of 
>> autoconf that doesn't detect X11 properly.
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> You should definitely regenerate configure after modifying configure.ac. 
> However changing the version of autoconf used should be discussed first. 
> In what way does the version of autoconf we've been using not detect X11 
> properly, and what is the implication of that improper detection?
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>> I got an error from svn about inconsistent line ending style... I find 
>> it odd that svn:eol-style is set on a generated file, so I thought I'd 
>> satisfy by bewilderment by asking here... so... yeah, what's up with 
>> that?
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> I can't find the revision that change was made in so I don't know why it 
> was done. On the other hand, why are the line endings in your newly 
> generated configure script inconsistent?

I ran into this as well with autoconf 2.63 when I updated trunk to 1.8;
autoconf 2.63 adds a variable, ac_cr, which is set to a Ctrl-M, and is
what I believe is confusing subversion.  Otherwise, the file itself is still
normal *nix-style line endings.

Bryan


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>> --Jeremy
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