From: lhall AT rfk DOT com (Larry Hall RFK Partners Inc) Subject: Re: FW: Strange problem with XEmacs ./configure 16 Jun 1998 21:43:22 -0700 Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.19980616115312.00aad5f0.cygnus.gnu-win32@pop.ma.ultranet.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Jeff Paulsen , "'xemacs-nt AT xemacs DOT org'" , "'gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com'" At 02:30 PM 6/15/98 -0700, Jeff Paulsen wrote: >Stil haven't gotten any help on this... It's as if all of the variables >in all of my shell scripts are always empty... and there's something >else going on. > >I really have no idea what might be causing this, as it persists even >after reinstalling CygWin. > >This is what I get: > >/usr/src/xemacs-21.0-b42$ ./configure >: Usage error: > The directory specified with the `--srcdir' option, >', doesn't seem to contain the XEmacs sources. You should >' script at the top of the XEmacs source > tree, or use the `--srcdir' option to specify the XEmacs source >directory. > --help' to show usage. > >The configure script should not produce output like this; this is the >relevant section of it. > > if test ! -f "$srcdir/src/lisp.h" -o \ > ! -f "$srcdir/lisp/version.el" ; then > (echo "$progname: Usage error:" >echo " " "The directory specified with the \`--srcdir' option, > \`$srcdir', doesn't seem to contain the XEmacs sources. You should > either run the \`$progname' script at the top of the XEmacs source > tree, or use the \`--srcdir' option to specify the XEmacs source >directory." >echo " Use \`$progname --help' to show usage.") >&2 && exit 1 > >As you can see, lines containing variables lose when passed to echo. > >I have reinstalled both the XEmacs source and Cygwin b19.2; here is a >uname -a > > /usr/src/xemacs-21.0-b42$ uname -a > CYGWIN32_95 JEFF-PAULSEN 4.0 19.2 i586 unknown > >Anyone have ANY idea what this is about? > >-- >Jeff Paulsen >jeff DOT paulsen AT poorman-douglas DOT com Do you have binary mounts? Did you use tar/gzip rather than winzip? If not, remount binary, reinstall with tar/gzip, and configure will work. Be prepared to remove carriage returns out of your other script files too otherwise they will start complaining. See info on binary/text mounts in FAQ and the mailing list archives. Larry Hall lhall AT rfk DOT com RFK Partners, Inc. (781) 239-1053 8 Grove Street (781) 239-1655 - FAX Wellesley, MA 02181 http://www.rfk.com - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".