Re: m4-1.4.x fails to build git Autoconf for some x

[Eric Blake]

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According to Ralf Wildenhues on 3/24/2008 10:51 AM:
| Here's some more data.  I installed MinGW's m4-1.4.7 which works fine.
| It has this diff over vanilla GNU m4-1.4.7.

It may have one other difference, not shown in the diff.  I know that on
cygwin, you can link any program with binmode.o, textmode.o, or automode.o
(provided alongside crt0.o) to force O_BINARY, O_TEXT, or input in O_TEXT
output in O_BINARY.  Perhaps part of what makes Chuck's prebuilt m4
special is that he pulled in one of these extra platform .o files during
the link phase to change the default mode of stdin/stdout and default
behavior of fopen from what you get in a vanilla build.

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Eric Blake             address@hidden
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