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

[Paul Vojta]

On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 12:37:22AM +0000, Karl Berry wrote:
>     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;
> 
> The config file is already not needed for the case of read-only
> checkouts (at least as far as properties go; use-commit-times=yes is
> probably needed for anyone doing a build).
> 
> The whole idea of Subversion's enable-auto-props is, as the name says,
> to tell Subversion to "automatically" "enable" "properties".  That is,
> svn is setting those properties in the repository, and thus everyone
> doing a checkout gets them.
> 
> Thus, if you run
>   svn proplist --verbose Master/texmf-dist/scripts/listings-ext
> you will set that the svn:eol-style property is already set.
> 
> In the past, it was the case that files with LF line endings caused all
> kinds of dire trouble on Windows, so we never did that.  I'm glad to
> hear that is apparently no longer the case.  I'll make some changes in
> that regard as soon as I have a chance.

On a somewhat related note, would it be possible to standardize on a
character encoding (preferably utf8)?  I use nvi, and it's quite picky
about utf8 vs. iso8859-1.

--Paul Vojta, vojta at math.berkeley.edu