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Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 10:23:22 -0600
From: Paulo Sequeira <psequeira@racsa.co.cr>
Subject: Re: ./configure
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Paulo Sequeira wrote:
> Donald wrote:
> 
>> Paulo Sequeira <psequeira <at> racsa.co.cr> writes:
>>
>>
>>> Donald wrote:
>>>
>>>> I am a newbie for cygwin.When I try to typed ./configure, it shows 
>>>> that.
>>>>
>>>> "$ ./configure"
>>>> "bash: ./configure: No such file or directory"
>>>>
>>>> Is there missing some packages of cygwin?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for your help
>>>>
>>>
>>> where are you running that command from? Most likely, you won't find 
>>> a configure file in home, unless you've deliverately put one there.
>>>
>>> what are you trying to configure?
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> I have typed "./configure" under /usr/src
>> I try to install a program but I don't have any experience on 
>> compiling a program. :(
>>
>> The readme of the program said :
>>
>> Build
>> -----
>>
>> Goto the "src" directory and run "./configure". When this finishs
>> successfully, run "make".
>>
>> But when I typed "./configure" ,
>> "bash: ./configure: No such file or directory"
>>
> 
> well, I'm guessing you just got the tarball (the tar.gz file) and 
> extracted its contents somewhere (say, /tmp/foo). I bet that you'll see 
> a src directory under /tmp/foo and that the "src" directory the readme 
> is referring to is precisely that one, and not /usr/src. Try running 
> ./configure from /tmp/foo/src and see what happens.
> 
> Paulo

FWIW, Mark's suggestion of using /usr/src/foo is better than /tmp/foo

Paulo

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