Re: boost_1_30_0: cannot compile red hat gcc

From: sebMarc (sebmarc_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-07-07 14:19:09

What i actually downloaded the .zip version instead of the .tar.gz. 
The .zip version is actually packaged for Windows users, hence the 
extra line feeds.

I appreciated your answer Ed, it led me to the explanation.

Stupid me.

Seb.

--- In Boost-Users_at_[hidden], Ed Hill <ed_at_e...> wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-07-07 at 14:42, sebMarc wrote:
> > I must be freakin stupid. I have the simplest config possible, 
gcc 
> > 2.96 with a red hat system.
> > 
> > Downloaded boot1_30_0, unzipped it, tried to compile thread and 
got:
> > bash-2.05a$ bjam "-sTOOLS=gcc"
> > ...found 341 targets...
> > ...updating 37 targets...
> > MkDir1 ../../../libs/thread/build/bin-stage
> > : command not found
> > MkDir1 ../../../libs/thread/build/bin
> > : command not found
> > mkdir: cannot create directory `\r': File exists
> > 
> >     mkdir  ../../../libs/thread/build/bin
> > 
> > ...failed MkDir1 ../../../libs/thread/build/bin...
> > 
> > Being jam ignorant, this is it, i am stuck :-(. Sigh.. 
> > 
> > Tried to run configure and got:
> > bash-2.05a$ chmod +x configure
> > bash-2.05a$ ./configure
> > : bad interpreter: No such file or directory
> 
> 
> That '\r' looks suspiciously like a carriage return.  Have you 
verified
> that your file is using the UN*X-style line-feed ("\n") instead of 
the
> WINDOWS-style carriage-return/line-feed pair ("\r\n")?
> 
> There are a number of ways to convert files between the two 
delimiter
> formats including emacs, dos2unix, unix2dos, etc.  See "man 
dos2unix"
> for more details.
> 
> Ed
> 
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