Rockboxdev.sh on ubuntu 12.04 LTS not running

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I just installed Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and tried to run the script rockboxdev.sh using the commands:

chmod +x rockboxdev.sh
then
sudo ./rockboxdev.sh

This is what you see on the terminal when I run the two commands:

Username@Username-GA-970A-UD3:~/Documents/rockbox/tools$ chmod +x ./rockboxdev.sh
Username@Username-GA-970A-UD3:~/Documents/rockbox/tools$ sudo ./rockboxdev.sh
[sudo] password for Username:
Username@Username-GA-970A-UD3:~/Documents/rockbox/tools$

Why does nothing happen am I doing something wrong ?
Or is it that Ubuntu 12.04 LTS doesnt work for compiling rockbox ?

[wodz]

I use 12.04 for rb development so this should just work. Try calling it explicitely with sh ./rockboxdev.sh. In general you don't need to run it as root (but if you run it as regular user you need to set installation dir correctly - see the very begining of the script for reference).

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Thanks for the reply 
I tried this sh ./rockboxdev.sh

This is what happened :

Username@Username-GA-970A-UD3:~/Documents/rockbox/tools$ sh ./rockboxdev.sh
: not foundv.sh: 2: ./rockboxdev.sh:
./rockboxdev.sh: 7: set: Illegal option -

Then I tried to use root just in case but yet again:

Username@Username-GA-970A-UD3:~/Documents/rockbox/tools$ sudo sh ./rockboxdev.sh
[sudo] password for Username:
: not foundv.sh: 2: ./rockboxdev.sh:
./rockboxdev.sh: 7: set: Illegal option -

Anymore advice I could try ?

[gevaerts]

Is that on FAT or NTFS, or did you copy the rockbox directory from FAT or NTFS?

[bluebrother]

Username@Username-GA-970A-UD3:~/Documents/rockbox/tools$ sh ./rockboxdev.sh
: not foundv.sh: 2: ./rockboxdev.sh:
./rockboxdev.sh: 7: set: Illegal option -

Sounds more like a bashism issue to me. Do not run it explicitly with sh, use bash instead:

bash rockboxdev.sh

(and check where /bin/sh is pointing to)

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I copied it from my windows partition which is NTFS

[gevaerts]

I copied it from my windows partition which is NTFS

OK, so permissions are going to be all wrong. If this is a git checkout (and you haven't edited any files), run "git reset --hard" first.

If you still have problems then, try following bluebrother's advice.

[bluebrother]

OK, so permissions are going to be all wrong. If this is a git checkout (and you haven't edited any files), run "git reset --hard" first.

Likely line endings as well. On Windows msysgit defaults to enable line ending conversion (core.autocrlf = true) which will produce windows line endings. If I remember correctly Linux shells usually don't like those. So if things still fail you can try to convert it using "dos2unix rockboxdev.sh" before running it.

In general I strongly recommend to not use a checkout that's on a non-native filesystem for any OS. So if you're using Linux clone the repository on Linux. If you're on Windows clone it on Windows. Unless you exactly know what you're doing and are aware of the pitfalls

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Thanks you guy's for the help its been great
Im just going to use git in Ubuntu to clone it again ill show you the result soon

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Amazing you guys are great its working and I'm up and running
Thanks heaps