X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 10:14:36 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: ./configure : no such file or directory Message-ID: <20080821081436.GD29104@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <19082179.post@talk.nabble.com> <48ACF733.6010501@sbcglobal.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <48ACF733.6010501@sbcglobal.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com On Aug 20 22:03, Tim Prince wrote: > noPartition wrote: >> hi everyone , I'm new to the forum , please don't rank me out :) >> I'm having trouble with part of the GNU toolchain , specifically >> 'configure' . I've installed the relevant packages , ie diffutils , but I >> still get the error titling this message . > Most gnu packages come with their own configure script, and, if there's > anything out of the ordinary, their own build instructions. > If you are following the usual procedure, you run configure in an empty > directory, so you must designate the path to the appropriate configure > script. Or, unbelievable as it may be, there is no configure script yet, just a configure.in or configure.ac script. That's what autoconf is for. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/