I fixed the problem. I downloaded 1.12 and did a from the cygwin window did a gunzip, tar -xvf and then a ./configure and a make, and everthing seems to be working. Somehow the 1.11 file must have got corrupted, I think it was because I did the gnzip and tar extraction outside of cygwin.
Paul ________________________________ From: Paul Jackson <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Sunday, April 5, 2009 8:21:27 PM Subject: GSL configure problem I’m trying to compile gsl 1.11, and get the error shown below when trying to compile using cygwin (v1.7) on a windows XP machine (Compaq PC). u...@compaq ~ $ cd gs* u...@compaq ~/gsl-1.11 $ ./configure checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c checking whether build environment is sane... yes /home/paul/gsl-1.11/missing: line 5: $'\r': command not found /home/paul/gsl-1.11/missing: line 10: $'\r': command not found /home/paul/gsl-1.11/missing: line 15: $'\r': command not found /home/paul/gsl-1.11/missing: line 20: $'\r': command not found /home/paul/gsl-1.11/missing: line 25: $'\r': command not found /home/paul/gsl-1.11/missing: line 41: syntax error near unexpected token `$'in\r '' 'home/paul/gsl-1.11/missing: line 41: `case "$1" in configure: WARNING: `missing' script is too old or missing checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /usr/bin/mkdir -p checking for gawk... gawk checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... no checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... (cached) yes configure: error: cannot run /bin/sh ./config.sub u...@compaq ~/gsl-1.11 $ Any help appreciated. Thanks in advance. Paul Jackson _______________________________________________ Help-gsl mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gsl
