autoconf 2.54-1 writes dos files

[Charles Wilson]

Sam Steingold wrote:

> I just noticed that autoconf 2.54-1 writes configure files with DOS
> CR/LF line ends!
> what's up?!
> I check "unix" in "default text file type" setup option and I do not
> have any CRs in the configure.in files!

autoconf is a perl program.  There were some releases of perl that had a 
few issues with incorrectly using DOS line endings even on binary 
mounts.  Try upgrading perl to the most recent release (5.8.0-5 for 
"regular" cygwin; 5.8.1-something for "test" or "experimental" cygwin)

--
Chuck



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