[tlbuild] Building TeXLive2013 on MinGW (Yung-Jang Lee)

[Mojca Miklavec]

On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 9:35 PM, Reinhard Kotucha wrote:
> On 2013-02-14 at 01:27:55 +0800, Yung-Jang Lee wrote:
>
>  >   1. Change DOS formated files (with CRLF as end of line) to Unix format,
>  > these include :
>  >       a. m4 files in source/m4/
>  >       b. lnstall-sh , ltmain.sh in source/build-aux/
>  >       c. dvipng.texi in texk/dvipng/doc/
>
> These files have Unix line endings in the repository, hence it's best
> to configure subversion accordingly.  Karl prepared a config file
>
>   http://tug.org/texlive/svn/config.txt
>
> already.  See http://tug.org/texlive/svn/setup.html (item 5) for more
> information about installation.
>
> Lines like
>
>  *.m4   = svn:eol-style=native
>  *.sh   = svn:eol-style=native
>
> should better be changed to
>
>  *.m4   = svn:eol-style=LF
>  *.sh   = svn:eol-style=LF

Just curious: if that is actually the case, wouldn't something like
    svn propset svn:eol-style LF source/m4/*.m4
also solve the problem? (Without the need for a special config file;
but of course the config file can be changed independently.)

Mojca