From: kchung AT microunity DOT com (Kin-man Chung)
Subject: Re: Progress..
30 Jan 1997 12:59:32 -0800
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Do you have /tmp in place?  If not, try creating it.  Bash assumes its
existence.  I think it is a bug to not say

../configure:  /tmp: No such file or directory

instead.

Nigel Rantor wrote:
> 
> Erm, ok, in addition to my plea for help there is this;
> 
> I think I have tracked down the configure script's problem to the cat
> command. It tries stuff like this;
> 
> -------
> cat << EOF
> lots stuff
> EOF
> -------
> 
> and gives errors like this;
> 
> ./configure:  <long number>: No such file or directory
> 
> Now I guess this is because it is trying to cat everything to EOF but
> can't find it. Is there something I can do or does it look like I'll have
> to go and change the way it uses the cat command?
> 
>  Nige
> 
> Nigel Rantor - WEB Ltd
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