The case of the missing 'r' key

[Simon Marlow]

On 22/07/2009 10:19, Ben Lippmeier wrote:
>
> benl at mavericks:~/devel/ghc/ghc-head-work> ./configure
> checking for gfind... no
> checking for find... /usr/bin/find
> checking for sort... /usr/bin/sort
> checking for GHC version date... inferred 6.11.20090722
> checking for ghc... /data0/home/benl/software/ghc-6.10.1/bin/ghc
> checking version of ghc... 6.10.1
> Build platform inferred as: spac-sun-solais2
> Host platform inferred as: spac-sun-solais2
> Target platform inferred as: spac-sun-solais2
> Unknown arch spac

I'd put money on it being due to this in configure.ac:

tr -d '\r'

there are a few instances of this, used to work around line-ending 
problems on Windows.  Probably Solaris 'tr' doesn't understand \r.

Cheers,
	Simon