DN> I downloaded the Unix version of Maximus 3.03b from the
 DN> SourceForge website.  Unfortunately it didn't compile and it
 DN> produced quite a few error messages.  I didn't capture the
 DN> error messages as they went so quickly.  I followed the
 DN> instructions outlined in the readme file.

 DN> I am trying to compile Maximus for Mandrake Linux 9.0.  The
 DN> last updated Maximus .gz file was back in June of 2003.  Is
 DN> that the latest version?

if you mean the max-3.03-etc.tar.gz file, yes... there is no other file
that i'm aware of... everything else has to come out of the cvs...

 DN> I remember reading a couple weeks
 DN> ago that someone found a way to strip the windows carriage
 DN> returns out of the source code files.  Thusly it would allow
 DN> the compiler to properly compile the code?

that has been done and those files commited to the cvs... they were only
related to the sqafix code...

FWIW: here's my update script that i use to start clean and fresh, get the
cvs stuff, configure and compile...

===== start =====
  cd /opt
  rm -rf maximus
  tar zxf max-3.03-etc.tar.gz
  rm maxbuild?.log
  rm maxbuild?.err
  echo updating maximus from the cvs repository...
  cvs -z3 -d :pserver:anonymous{at}cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/maximus co
maximus 1>opt/maxbuild1.log 2>/opt/maxbuild1.err
  echo configuring... hit enter... possibly twice...
  cd /opt/maximus
  ./configure --prefix=/opt/max 1>opt/maxbuild2.log 2>/opt/maxbuild2.err
  echo running make build...
  make build 1>/opt/maxbuild3.log 2>/opt/maxbuild3.err
  cd /opt
===== end =====

any lines in first column are continuations of the one above... i'm sure
the cvs line will be broken into at least 3 lines and ./configure into 2
lines...

the above expects a copy of max-3.03-etc.tar.gz in the /opt directory...

the above is also done on a mandrake 7.1 (helium) system... there were some
large changes between v7, 8 and 9... the six log files of the process will
help... i actually have the portions from echo to echo in seperate scripts
so that i can run each manually and seperately if i need to for looking at
the logs between each stage...

my last successful pull, configure and compile was Nov 29, at about 10:30pm
eastern time...

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