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Re: text/binary? bash errors. Newbie problem.
- To: sjm@judgement.com, cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com
- Subject: Re: text/binary? bash errors. Newbie problem.
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf@cygnus.com>
- Date: Tue, 16 Feb 1999 00:38:56 -0500
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- In-Reply-To: <199902151555.KAA03483@brocade.nexen.com>; from Steve Morris on Mon, Feb 15, 1999 at 10:55:23AM -0500
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On Mon, Feb 15, 1999 at 10:55:23AM -0500, Steve Morris wrote:
>
>
>I'm having touble running configure for cvs. After a little isolation
>I discovered that sh is clearly not reading the same file that I see
>with cat. I'm getting errors
>
>: not found
>
>on blank lines in the script. (bash gives different but similar
>errors.) I am having other problems also but this is the most obvious
>symptom.
>
>I'm obviously missing something basic in my setup but can't find
>it. It doesn't help that the list archive search engine is down and
>was all weekend.
>
>I'm running B20.1 (reinstalled it yesterday from scratch) with all
>disks binary mounted and CYGWIN=tty binmode.
>
>Any pointers appreciated.
This is almost certainly a problem with \r\n endings in your configure
file. Unless you wiped out everything before reinstalling, you probably
still have files with \r\n line endings.
cgf