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

[Elijah <des...@so...>]

So the entire tar archive cannot be used ?? Where else can I find a
csv2pdb tools that are already compiled and in a binary form?

I've been using dos2unix commands and it still doesn't work. 

Elijah,

On Fri, 2003-01-03 at 20:54, Per-Erik Martin wrote:
> 
> > > 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
> 
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