Re: a problem with Byron's latest source release of psqlodbc

Gerald Gryschuk wrote:

> Hi
>
> I downloaded Byron's latest psqlodbc source release from the postgreSQL
> ftp site
> and discovered a couple of problems.
>
> I don't know where the tar.gz file was created but the following files
> have the wrong "permissions". I had to run 'chmod +x' on them to make
> them executable. The files in question are,
> "configure"
> "config.sub"
> "config.guess"
> "install.sh"
>
> Furthermore, I suspect that the tar.gz file was created on Windows
> as it appears the files have the carriage-return/line-feed problem
> again. When I tried to './configure' the source it spit out
> all kinds of errors and couldn't figure out my system type.
> Ultimately I had to use zip on the template directory and than
> did 'unzip -a' and everything worked. So...,how do we avoid this
> in the future? At least if Byron releases the source in zip format
> us Unix users only need to do 'unzip -a' on the file.
>

My Bad...Sorry.

I'll fix it and re-upload it today. I think it should stay "tar.gz"
though.

Byron