[mdlug] OT: Windows XP + Cygwin + OpenCOBOL, spells oops!

Ingles, Raymond Raymond.Ingles at compuware.com
Thu Sep 18 09:05:15 EDT 2008


> From: David Relson

> Richard Staff wrote:
> > Upon running ./configure, here are the error messages:
> > 
> > ./configure: line 21: syntax error near unexpected token `elif'

> What shell is running?  Sounds like it doesn't understand 'elif'.

 Sure looks like that.

 First, try running the script as "bash ./configure". If that doesn't
work, edit 'configure' and change the "#!/bin/sh" line at the start to
"#!/bin/bash". If *that* doesn't work, come back and we'll try to figure
out what the heck is going on...

 Sincerely,

 Ray Ingles                           (313) 227-2317

   Microsoft Windows - Dissatisfaction guaranteed.
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