committing update to configure

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Nov 29, 2008, at 22:16, Bryan Blackburn wrote:

> On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 10:06:43PM -0600, Ryan Schmidt said:
>>
>> On Nov 29, 2008, at 04:02, Jeremy Huddleston wrote:
>>
>>> I had a small update to configure.ac that I wanted to push (below).
>>
>> Looks good to me.
>>
>>> I decided to regen configure since it was made with an old  
>>> version of
>>> autoconf that doesn't detect X11 properly.
>>
>> 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?
>>
>>> 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?
>>
>> 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.

Ok, I figured it was something like that. Well, we can remove the  
property.