[Bioperl-l] problems with perling Makefile.PL

[Heikki Lehvaslaiho]

Hmmm... My copy of 0.7 CVS Makefile.Pl does not contain any carriage
returns. They should not matter, either..

Anyway, you should be able to get rid of them by typing:

perl -pi -e  's/\015//' Makefile.PL

or more UNIXy way of doing this is 

tr -d '\r' < Makefile.PL > newMakefile.PL
  and then rename the files.

I hope this helps. 
	-Heikki

On Sat, 2002-02-09 at 00:33, kristen briggs wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm a beginning programmer and I'm having trouble perling the
> Makefile.pl.  I downloaded the binary bioperl-0.7.2.tar.gz for solaris
> to my pc, extracted the files, and moved the files over to my unix
> account.
> 
> I then typed perl Makefile.PL and got the following message:
> 
> "Illegal character \015 (carriage return) at Makefile.PL line 5. (Maybe
> you didn't strip carriage returns after a network transfer?)"
> 
> Please advise me as to how to fix the Makefile.PL.  I have no idea how
> to strip the carriage returns after a network transfer or that I even
> needed to strip carriage returns.
> 
> I will be eternally grateful,
> 
> Kris Briggs
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