[Palm-db-tools-list] Re: Compiling db-tools 0.3.5 on Mandrake Linux

[Per-Erik M. <pe...@te...>]

> > I am trying to compile the source in the db-tools package on a Mandrake 
> > Linux 9.0 box, and here are the steps outlined in the README file that 
> > comes with the tar.gz package:
> > > The problem is that I can't even get past the "./configure" step. 
> > First, I chmod'ed the ./configure file to 755 to make it executable, 
> 
> 	Where did you find it ? The script I got was executable...
> 
> 
> > but even with this change, typing ./configure gave me a "command not 
> > found" error.  So I fell back to trying "sh ./configure", and here is 
> 
> 	That is very strange also.
> 
> 
> > the output:
> > <root@nikita palm-db-tools> sh ./configure
> > : command not found:
> > '/configure: line 14: syntax error near unexpected token `in
> > '/configure: line 14: `  case X$UNAME in
> 
> 	Can you send a trace of the execution ? (xtrace or so ?) ?
> 

This has been mentioned on the palm-db-tool list as well:

The current tar-archive is completely broken for Unix users.

A lot of files have Windows CRLFs as EOL (instead of LF). This breaks
all the configure/make stuff. (This is what's causing the problem above.)

Some scripts are not executable (most notably, configure).

The file gui/q/Makefile.in is missing.

... and probably more. That's as far as I got before I got fed up and
did a rm -rf ...

    /pem