Re: ./configure script errors

[Michael M. <mic...@gm...>]

Warren Wilder wrote:

> (Basically, I would enjoy a Makefile.)

You'll get a Makefile as soon as configure has created one. That's the
whole purpose of the configure script.

> I am experiencing several errors in the ./configure script and am wondering 
> how fatal these are, considering they are purely based on Perl syntax. Is 
> there some Perl configuration thing? A locale thing?

There is no Perl involved. Look at the very first line of the script, it
tells you the name of the program that is supposed to run the script.

> Below I have pasted the lines which contain weird characters at weird 
> position, according to configure itself.

Did it give an error message by coincidence? If yes: what was it?

> Configure halted on the first line (7163) ofcourse, but I managed to get 
> further by removing the ` characters from that line and rerunning 
> configure.

These characters are normal backtics in a perfectly normal place for a
shell script.

> ./configure: line 8486: syntax error: unexpected end of file

These are the kind of error messages that are useful for someone to be
able to help you (of course only if the file has not been randomly
altered by you).

Please re-extract the configure script, run it again (using ./setup.sh,
like it's said in the INSTALL file) and then copy and paste the last
three or so lines before and including the error message.

And it would be useful if you would post the name of your OS (if you
don't know, send the output of "uname -a"), and the filename of the
lirc package you were trying.

Regards...
		Michael