[pilot-db-list] Compiling db-tools 0.3.5 on Mandrake Linux

[Daniel L. <spr...@PA...>]

All:

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:

[README excerpt]
Compiling on UNIX
-----------------

You will need a C++ compiler on your system which supports the STL and
exceptions. Then run the following commands to compile the utilities:

  ./configure
  make

In the "flatfile" directory, you will find the "csv2pdb" program which
is used to convert from text files to Palm Pilot format and the
"pdb2csv" program which is used to convert from a Palm Pilot format
back to text files.
[/README excerpt]

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, 
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 
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

Any suggestions or explanations?  Has anyone successfully compiled this 
package on a Linux box?  If so, which distribution?  Maybe Mandrake is 
doing something wrong.

Dan