bad interpreter: No such file or directory

I am attempting to install from the 2.5 version of the Xerces-c XML Parser from source to a Mandrake 10 install.

One of the steps in doing so is running the runConfigure script, when I do so however I am greeted with the error:

bad interpreter: No such file or directory

Research indicates that this is normally caused by one of two things, either having bad line breaks in the script file due to it being edited under windows, or the not having an appropriate call to an interpreter on the first line (ie #!/bin/sh).

Unfortunately, neither of these are the cause of my problem as the script file has no extra line breaks (and shouldn’t as I’ve simply extracted it from the source Dled from the authors at xml.apache.org) and #!/bin/sh does exist on the first line of the script. Furthermore, on the system /bin/sh is a valid path and can be executed from any dir and ultimately is linked to bash.

I have also tried all of this while logged in as root as well as ensuring that my user (either myself or root) has full access to all of the files.

Any suggestions as to what else I might try to be able to get a working install of it?

Note: Ordinarily I’d just install from RPM, but as far as I can find there is no Xerces-C 2.5 RPM for Mandrake, nor a devel pack.


Update: 9:45 AM CST:

On the advice of a friend, I tried to run the script with: “sh runConfigure” and has the following returned:
 
: command not found60
 : command not found81
 'UnConfigure: line 82: syntax error near unexpected token
 'UnConfigure: line 82: `usage()

Also, for reference, here is an ls -l a couple of the files involved in all of this:

ls -l runConfigure
-rwxrwxr-x  1 brendang brendang 21301 Jun 22 08:26 runConfigure*

ls -l /bin/sh
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 4 Jun 16 04:11 /bin/sh -> bash*