Bug#74862: tetex-bin: makeindex does not like DOS line-endings

[Thomas Esser <te@dbs.uni-hannover.de>]

> Since there is no upstream - will you apply such a patch to teTeX and/or
> TeXlive sources? Do you think somebody should look closer at the code

I'd rather not want to apply that patch. I fear that line numbers will be
just wrong, by changes like

            case LFD:
                sty_lc++;
    +       case CRN:
    +           sty_lc++;

(both because of a missing break *and* because a line ended with CR LF
should count as one, not as two). And, in addition to allow DOS-lineends,
one should go a step further and add support for MAC-lineends as well.

That means that the following should be valid line-terminators:
  CR
  CR LF
  LF

I think that I could make this change for makeindex, but I'd prefer to
spend my time on other things first. So, I'd be happy if someone else
could do that.

Thanks,

Thomas