Re^2: Installing Perl 5.10.0: problems with ./Configure

Maybe this is actually a shell script issue, so I'm sorry if this is the wrong place to ask this (reputation suggests maybe it is?!)

I edited the Configure file so that it read:

#! /bin/sh

echo hi there
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Then created an identical file from scratch, in the same directory, trivial.sh. trivial.sh worked completely as expected (printed "hi there" on the command line), but the Configure file did this:
./Configure
./Configure: command not found

sh ./Configure
: command not found2:
: command not found3:
hi there
: command not found5:

I found this which talks (near the bottom) about 'DOS style line breaks'. Could this be the problem? If this is not a suitable place for this question, then I'll ask elsewhere (any suggestions?) but I'd appreciate some (more) monkish wisdom if anyone has any..

cheers
why_bird

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Re^3: Installing Perl 5.10.0: problems with ./Configure by almut (Canon) on May 07, 2008 at 15:34 UTC
... 'DOS style line breaks'. Could this be the problem? Actually, yes, playing some more with this (in particular with a `csh` compatible shell), I do in fact obtain similar effects when the entire script has DOS/Windows style line endings... (just fixing the problem on the shebang line is not sufficient). Not sure how those `\r` got in the file... did you edit `Configure` prior to running it initially? Anyhow, this should fix the problem (at least with this very file...): `perl -i -pe 's/\r//g' ./Configure` [download] (Well, if you already have any perl installed, that is... Otherwise, look for some tool like `dos2unix`, or similar)	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^4: Installing Perl 5.10.0: problems with ./Configure by why_bird (Pilgrim) on May 07, 2008 at 15:47 UTC
Ah, lovely, thankyou---I didn't know what the 'DOS style line break' character was in perl. I've already got Perl 5.8.5. I tried to install 5.10.0 back when I started to learn Perl but gave up pretty quickly when I thought I'd need root permissions. I thought it'd be good to have a play around with it now that I'm a bit more experienced. thanks! ........ Those are my principles. If you don't like them I have others. -- Groucho Marx .......	[reply]
Re^5: Installing Perl 5.10.0: problems with ./Configure by ysth (Canon) on May 08, 2008 at 05:07 UTC
If the problem was DOS line endings, either you got the source from a bad place or you did something bad in extracting it. Where did you get it and what did you do to extract it? -- Online Fortune Cookie Search	[reply]
Re^6: Installing Perl 5.10.0: problems with ./Configure by why_bird (Pilgrim) on May 08, 2008 at 07:37 UTC
Re^7: Installing Perl 5.10.0: problems with ./Configure by syphilis (Archbishop) on May 08, 2008 at 08:21 UTC
Re^7: Installing Perl 5.10.0: problems with ./Configure by ysth (Canon) on May 08, 2008 at 14:58 UTC


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