[CMake] inconsistent line endings in Visual Studio 2010

[John Drescher]

On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 8:39 AM, John Drescher <drescherjm at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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.
>
Sorry. I spoke too soon. Erase that Idea. You are generating the file in CMake.

John