UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

I posted a problem with the forum on 11/18/02. Unfortunately, I
have been out of town. Today is the first chance I've had to try
the suggestions that were made.

Here is the output from the ls -l configure* command:

-rw-r--r-- 1root sys 58230 May 21 2002 configure


When I type " sh ./configure or ksh ./configure " I get the output:

. /configure: ^M: not found
. /configure: ^M: not found
. /configure: ^M: not found
. /configure: syntax error line 103: `in^M unexpected


The forums help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

It looks like you opened the file in Windows and then saved it, resulting in the windows "^M" end of line character appearing in the file.

Backup your Apache files and then try to remove all the "^M" characters at the end of each line in the file "configure"

Also, if you are to run a command like:

Code:

./configure

you need to make the file executable - which your isn't (-rw-r--r--), this can be done with the command:

Code:

chmod +x configure

Yep, and when you run the script like cstovall did, as a parameter to the shell, the script does not need the executable bit set.