> Yes: it puts a carriage-return character into configure
> which completely confuses subversion.
> 
> I'm puzzled how you were able to commit the generated
> files; subversion should have reported an error
> 
> svn: File 'configure' has inconsistent newlines
> svn: Inconsistent line ending style

I did get that message (and got puzzled by it).
I worked around it by reading the file in universal newlines mode and
saving it again.