Why don't you just install CVS for Linux? It's quick, it's easy,
and it comes in an RPM (or .deb) file. Indeed, it actually comes
with all versions of RedHat and Debian. Why not use it natively?
-derek
"Rob Coker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Thanks everyone for the help.
>
> I finally figured out what the problem was. CVS automatically goes from LF
> only at end of line to CR-LF if that is the default for the file system.
> Since that is default for Dos/Windows, I got a bunch of extraneous CR's. I
> stripped them out and it would configure, but it was a ton of work. I
> decided to re-download with the -kb option which inhibits the end-of-line
> conversions.
>
> Rob Coker
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Rob Browning [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Monday, November 15, 1999 4:58 PM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Re: cvs/build difficulty
> >
> >
> > "Rob Coker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> > > This is probably a simple problem, and so I apologize in advance.
> > >
> > > I downloaded the source from cvs yesterday using cvs for
> > windows (since I
> > > accidently bought a WinModem). I rebooted into linux and went
> > to the win95
> > > directory where I had saved it (mounted as vfat). When I
> > issued the command
> > > ./configure, I got an error something like: bash can not find file or
> > > directory. The file is there, I can do: more configure, vi
> > configure, and so
> > > forth. Anybody know why it will not run?
> >
> > 1) your windows partition may be mounted noexec
> > 2) there may be funnybusiness with filename spaces or case
> > (in)sensitivity -- I've noticed that although vfat shows case, it
> > doesn't distinguish it (i.e. "mv Foo foo" is illegal).
> >
> > In general, I wouldn't recommend building from a vfat partition. Copy
> > it to a more unixlike filesystem first.
> >
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