Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 10:23:22 -0600 From: Paulo Sequeira Subject: Re: ./configure In-reply-to: <4235B732.2040601@racsa.co.cr> To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Message-id: <4235BA7A.7030800@racsa.co.cr> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) References: <4235A878 DOT 4070604 AT racsa DOT co DOT cr> <4235B732 DOT 2040601 AT racsa DOT co DOT cr> X-IsSubscribed: yes Paulo Sequeira wrote: > Donald wrote: > >> Paulo Sequeira 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 -- 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/