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Subject: Re: RFC: Adding a check to the top level configure script for a binary-mounted  cygwin-hosted build directory
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> I agree, I think it would be very good to have this check available in 
> the main autoconf sources.

Except that it would penalize MinGW and DJGPP since they don't have a
"binmode" concept.  We've put a lot of work into keeping track of
binary vs text files, why give up on it now?