Re: [Boost-users] Cannot compile boost 1.35 under ubuntu linux

From: John Maddock (john_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-04-08 04:15:59

Germán Diago wrote:
>> Hello. I tried to configure boost in order to be able to install it.
>> But the configure archive
>> seems to be broken.
>>
>> bash: ./configure: /bin/sh^M: bad interpreter: No such file or
>> directory
>>
>> The output shows a ^M symbol after /bin/sh. It seems to be an
>> encoding problem.
>> So I tried to delete that line and invoke the script with the shell
>> explicitly:
>>
>> /bin/bash ./configure --prefix=/usr

Did you install from the .zip file?  That has all the files in \r\n Windows 
format, while the .tar.gz version has all Unix line endings which is what 
you need.

HTH, John.