[vox-tech] Problems with missing 'missing' file

[Eric Lin]

On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 05:52:30PM -0700, Rick Moen wrote:
> Quoting Eric Lin (notapplicable.haha at gmail.com):
> 
> > On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 03:43:54PM -0700, Cam Ellison wrote:
> > > I'm trying to compile a firmware flashing app (I have a MultiTech modem 
> > > with a motorboating problem, and the firmware upgrade is said to be the 
> > > answer) and keep running into the same error.  The app was developed for 
> > > OSX, but the notes say it will run on Linux.
> > 
> > > I have seen a suggestion that running dos2unix will deal with those 
> > > $'\r' lines, but dos2unix thinks it's a binary file.
> > 
> > I downloaded the source for this app and ran dos2unix on all the files.
> > Afterward, I had to modify a few of the source files' headers to get it
> > to actually compile. Also, I have automake-1.11, but make wanted
> > automake-1.10 and aclocal-1.10, so I just made symlinks in my ~/bin
> > folder.
> 
> You know, it's really worthwhile getting to know how to do
> search/replace for such problems within vim.  For one thing, if you try
> such a change and it doesn't seem to have worked correctly, you can just
> do 'u' to undo, and try to refine your change.
> 
> In this case, something like 
> 
> :%s/\r//g
> 
> is probably all you needed.

Indeed. Regex is magical.