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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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