[CMake] inconsistent line endings in Visual Studio 2010

[John Drescher]

> VS 2010 always breaks my build complaining about inconsistent line
> endings in a generated file. I need to open and re-save the file in VS
> to be able to continue. My code is about:
>
> TRY_RUN(...... RUN_OUTPUT_VARIABLE RUN_OUTPUT)
> FILE(WRITE ${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/foo.h "${RUN_OUTPUT}")
>
> The program being run just prints several lines using
> printf("........\n"). I am not aware this should generate UNIX endings
> only. Interestingly, VS once said it is MAC-generated.
>
> Is there a way I can solve or walk around this problem without
> breaking the compilation on linux instead?
>

One suggestion is to use a SCM (like subversion) that will translate
the line endings for you depending in the OS you are using.

John