Dave Korn wrote: > On 29 November 2007 15:47, asadollahbaik a. (aa306) wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I am a new user to cygwin and even to unix. >> >> I am trying to compile a package called "meep" by means of cygwin. >> While running the configure command I get an error as: >> >> ./configure: line 13: $'r': command not found > > Guess #1: Don't use WinZIP (or any other windows GUI program) to unpack > .tar.gz files for Cygwin, because they mangle the line ends from LF to CRLF. > Use "tar xvzf meep-0.10.1.tar.gz" in a bash shell instead. > > Guess #2: If it's not that, you may have installed cygwin in textmode, or be > unpacking your tarball on a textmode mountpoint. Please run "cygcheck -srv > > cygcheck.out" in a bash shell, and post the resulting cygcheck.out file - as > an *attachment*, please - to the list.
#3 what if this is a typical gcc style configure, where you are supposed to configure and build in a clean directory? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
