[redland-dev] Windows XP and Cygwin installation

[Danny Ayers]

This may just be coincidental, but for what it's worth I got a very
similar error on cygwin the other day elsewhere when I forgot
Python.h, which is in cygwin (setup) as part of python-dev -
presumably needed for the corresponding bindings.

On 18/09/2007, Lauri Aalto <laalto at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 9/17/07, Emsley, I (Iain) <I.Emsley at rl.ac.uk> wrote:
> > I've downloaded the zip files for Raptor, Rasqal and Redlands. I have
> > extracted them and then used Cygwin to swap into the directories they exist
> > in. When I run ./configure I keep getting:
> >
> > ./configure: line 15: $ '\r': command not found
> > ./configure: line 26: syntax error near unexpected token '$' in '\r'
> > ./configure: line 26:; case '(set -o) 2>/dev/null' in
> >
> > I've tried from fresh installations but keep running into this issue. I
> > haven't altered anything either.
> >
> > I've googled around but does anybody have a step by step set of instructions
> > about installing onto Windows XP via Cygwin?
>
> Looks like your unzip program has been configured to replace unix line
> endings LF "\n" in text files with DOS line endings CRLF "\r\n".
> Cygwin tools are essentially unix tools and some of them do not like
> CRs.
>
> For example, in WinZip you should uncheck Options -> Configuration ->
> Miscellaneous -> TAR file smart CR/LF conversion.
>
> Lauri
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