Re: Building Expat

"Robert P. J. Day" <[email protected]> Thu, 18 Aug 2005 19:47:52 -0400 (EDT)

Newsgroups	gmane.text.xml.expat.general
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

On Thu, 18 Aug 2005, David Fawcett wrote:

> I am trying to build expat 1-95-8 on FC3, and I am pretty new to
> compiling...
>
> I un-tar'ed the file.
>
> Following the build directions, I cd to the folder holding the
> configure script and when I type ./configure, I get '[djf@localhost
> expat-1.95.8]$ ./configure : bad interpreter: No such file or
> directory'
>
> This is as a normal user.
>
> When I su to root, and try to run it like this, I get this message:
> [root@localhost expat-1.95.8]# .
> /home/djf/gpsbabel/expat/expat-1.95.8/configure: command not found
> bash: /home/djf/gpsbabel/expat/expat-1.95.8/configure: line 16: syntax
> error nea' unexpected token `in
> bash: /home/djf/gpsbabel/expat/expat-1.95.8/configure: line 16: `
> case X$UNAME 'n

i just did a CVS checkout to get the latest version, ran:

  $ ./buildconf.sh
  $ ./configure
  $ make

and everything seems to be going nicely so far.

rday