text/binary? bash errors. Newbie problem.

[Christopher Faylor]

On Mon, Feb 15, 1999 at 10:55:23AM -0500, Steve Morris wrote:
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>
>I'm having touble running configure for cvs. After a little isolation
>I discovered that sh is clearly not reading the same file that I see
>with cat. I'm getting errors 
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>: not found
>
>on blank lines in the script. (bash gives different but similar
>errors.) I am having other problems also but this is the most obvious
>symptom. 
>
>I'm obviously missing something basic in my setup but can't find
>it. It doesn't help that the list archive search engine is down and
>was all weekend.
>
>I'm running B20.1 (reinstalled it yesterday from scratch) with all
>disks binary mounted and CYGWIN=tty binmode.
>
>Any pointers appreciated.

This is almost certainly a problem with \r\n endings in your configure
file.  Unless you wiped out everything before reinstalling, you probably
still have files with \r\n line endings.

cgf