Linux - Configure not running

[Ceashure]

Trying to compile residual from svn trunk, when I run configure I'm getting the following errors:

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sudo sh ./configure
: not found: 25: 
: not found: 34: 
: not found: 37: 
: not found: 41: 
./configure: 46: Syntax error: word unexpected (expecting "do")

The lines 25,34,37,41 ("not found") are comment lines. So I deleted all the comment lines. Now they are fixed (weird...but ok).

For the last error, by default line 46 has the syntax:

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for ac_dir in $PATH; do

This is good syntax, and I'm not sure why sh is choking on it. No matter what I do, it does not fix itself.


I'm using Ubuntu 10.10. Any ideas what might be going on? I have a feeling it might be "hidden chars" or encoding or something like that, but I don't have any knowledge of how to remove those *safely* from a bash script.[/code]

[ezekiel000]

You don't need to run sh or as root, I just run "./configure" and I have no problems. I'm also running Ubuntu 10.10.

[Ceashure]

It doesn't matter how I run it, it always comes up with the same error. Bash or SH, Admin or not.


Well actually, if I run it as just ./configure all i get is:
"Command not found". When I run with sh or bash appended to the front I get a print out of the errors like shown in my first post.

[ezekiel000]

You might need to set the flag to allow the file to be run as an executable. It's in the properties of the file, Permissions tab at the bottom.

[Ceashure]

You were right. I didn't realize that Ubuntu had no support for permissions on NTFS partitions. Moving the residual folder to my local ext3 partition allowed the execute bit to be set correctly. I reverted back to the original configure script and it compiles just fine.

Thanks Ezekiel000!