autoconf

[Larry Hall (Cygwin)]

Bob Rossi wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 06:45:10PM -0500, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
>> Bob Rossi wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I'm using autoconf. I notice when I use things like
>>> AC_CHECK_SIZEOF (int)
>>> that the ac_cv_sizeof_int has the value of "4\r".
>>>
>>> There is an extra carriage return in there. I start my configure
>>> script with
>>>  ./configure --build=mingw32
>>> could that be the problem?
>>>
>>> Is there any solution to having these macro's work correctly on cygwin?
>>> or did I break it by using the --build option? BTW, I can't test it
>>> without the --build option because the configure script doesn't even get
>>> that far otherwise, since this is a mingw package (sort of).
>>
>> Sounds to me like the file you're feeding to autoconf has DOS line endings 
>> in
>> it.
> 
> Yes, this is correct. The AC_CHECK_SIZEOF macro does not work with
> -mno-cygwin unless there is a cygwin version of 'cat' on the path.
> 
> Is there a standard way to resolve this problem?


I'm not sure.  I'm assuming not using '-mno-cygwin' is not an option?

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