%% Scott Ferguson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
sf> I've decided that replacing as much of the OS as possible with GNU
sf> will probably be the fix, and I started with Make (since I need it
sf> for everything else!) I get hung up trying to run the configure
sf> file because it insists that it needs ^M on the ends of the lines.
No, you've got this backwards.
It's complaining because you _DO_ have ^M on the ends of all your
lines.
Not because you need them.
It's illegal to have ^Ms on the ends of shell script lines in UNIX; in
UNIX the line delimiter is simply the LF character, not the CRLF
two-character sequence that DOS and Windows use.
There definitely aren't any ^Ms on the ends of the lines in the
distributed configure file, so your distribution is corrupted.
How did you get the distribution? Did you get the compressed tar file
from the FSF? If so, then something in the process of untaring that
file added ^Ms to the ends of the lines.
If you retrieved the (non-compressed) source via FTP, are you sure you
remembered to transfer it in binary mode?
Etc.
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