Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sourceware.cygnus.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com X-Authentication-Warning: bono.reversers.net: stefan owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 4 May 2000 00:36:18 +0200 (CEST) From: stefan X-Sender: stefan@bono.reversers.net To: Soh Kam Yung cc: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Subject: Re: Problems running configure script In-Reply-To: <20000503035610.12595.qmail@ww181.netaddress.usa.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On 3 May 2000, Soh Kam Yung wrote: > I'm having problems running configure for wget with the new Cygwin Net > release. I didn't install all the tar.gz files, so my guess is I need to > install a package (or more) to get it working but I'm not sure which one. > > Below is the ouput that I'm getting: > > > ./configure > loading cache ./config.cache > configuring for GNU Wget 1.5.3 > checking host system type... i386-pc-cygwin32 > ./configure: cannot create temp file for here document: Permission denied > ./configure: cannot create temp file for here document: Permission denied > ./configure: cannot create temp file for here document: Permission denied > ./configure: cannot create temp file for here document: Permission denied These errors result from bash's problem with cat, you get this kind of error if you type: $ cat << FOO $ text.... $ bla $ FOO And configure uses /bin/sh. It could be you linked this to your bash ? You will solve this using the real "sh" not "bash" and saying $ sh ./configure Hope this help... Stefan. -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com