Bootstrap character terminations mess up build on Windows

[minhalhasham]

Hi Tom! Minhal here. Just went to clone and build on Win11 v23H2 build 22631.3447. Using cygwin with autoconf 2.7, automake 1.16.5-1, and gcc 11.4.

After running ./bootstrap, I got :
$ ./bootstrap ./bootstrap: line 2: $'\r': command not found '.toreconf-2.72: error: unrecognized option '- autoreconf-2.72: Try '/usr/bin/autoreconf-2.72 --help' for more information.
Seems like some weirdness between line breaks in Linux and Windows. Running autoreconf -vi manually worked and then the remainder of the build process was fine.

Just figured I'd flag this, and thank you for continuing to maintain all these picoquant repos!

EDIT: A workaround if you want to continue to use ./bootstrap is to have a text editor convert line endings from CRLF to LF

[tsbischof]

I do not have easy access to a Windows machine at the moment, but can you report whether you configured git to check out with Windows-style or Unix-style line endings? My guess is there might be a translation issue there.

In the meantime I will find a Windows install and see what I can find

[minhalhasham]

Looks like I had it check out with Windows-style. At least:
$ git config --get core.autocrlf
Returns true