Strange ./configure Error Message
I'm trying to install the latest version of Quanta. Yast and apt do not have the latest version, so I d/l'd the bz2 file from Sourceforge. After I expanded the file, I went to run ./configure, and got the following: bronxville:/home/lms/Documents/Downloads/quanta-3.0 # ./configure bash: ./configure: /bin/sh: bad interpreter: Permission denied bronxville:/home/lms/Documents/Downloads/quanta-3.0 # I'm running SuSE 8.1. I'm not a programmer, so the whole build process is something I do rote, without really understanding what's going on. I don't want to be a programmer either; I just want to run the app! Thanks! -- ______________________________________________ A Message From L. Mark Stone http://www.lmstone.com
On Fri, 2002-11-29 at 20:48, L. Mark Stone wrote:
I'm trying to install the latest version of Quanta. Yast and apt do not have the latest version, so I d/l'd the bz2 file from Sourceforge.
After I expanded the file, I went to run ./configure, and got the following:
Before you configure try to change to the csh shell by typing in either csh or tsch at the prompt, then try to run ./configure (csh should be a symlink to tsch, so it doesn't matter which) After seeing Quanta mentioned in the list for html editors, I too, tried to install the bz2 file from SourceForge (seeing that the one on the SuSE cd was a pre-release canidate). I also received several odd errors that I could not figure out during the configure. I am using 8.1 also. If you get it to work, can you post saying if you were successful? I gave up, thinking it is something with the 8.1 file structure that I can't figure out. Maybe then I'll try again, but right now I am too fustrated with it since normally I can figure out the errors I get :( -Jeric -- JericAtSbcglobalDotNetwork 9:09pm up 9 days, 12:58, 6 users, load average: 0.28, 0.21, 0.09
On Fri, 2002-11-29 at 22:21, Jeric wrote:
Before you configure try to change to the csh shell by typing in either csh or tsch at the prompt, then try to run ./configure (csh should be a symlink to tsch, so it doesn't matter which) <snip>
Jeric, No joy. See below: bronxville:/home/lms/Documents/Downloads/quanta-3.0 # tsch bash: tsch: command not found bronxville:/home/lms/Documents/Downloads/quanta-3.0 # csh bronxville Downloads/quanta-3.0# ./configure ./configure: Permission denied. bronxville Downloads/quanta-3.0# Something else to try? Thanks! Mark -- ______________________________________________ A Message From L. Mark Stone http://www.lmstone.com
Instead of opening a new shell, you can just try "sh ./configure". If that is not working, then your .configure file is corrupt one way or the other. Did you, by any chance, transfer this file from a windows box to your linux box (I am pointing at the Newline incompatibility between the tow OSs). What are the first few lines of your .configure? Ali. On Friday 29 November 2002 21:26, L. Mark Stone wrote:
On Fri, 2002-11-29 at 22:21, Jeric wrote:
Before you configure try to change to the csh shell by typing in either csh or tsch at the prompt, then try to run ./configure (csh should be a symlink to tsch, so it doesn't matter which)
<snip>
Jeric,
No joy. See below:
bronxville:/home/lms/Documents/Downloads/quanta-3.0 # tsch bash: tsch: command not found bronxville:/home/lms/Documents/Downloads/quanta-3.0 # csh bronxville Downloads/quanta-3.0# ./configure ./configure: Permission denied. bronxville Downloads/quanta-3.0#
Something else to try?
Thanks! Mark
On Fri, 2002-11-29 at 21:26, L. Mark Stone wrote:
bronxville:/home/lms/Documents/Downloads/quanta-3.0 # tsch bash: tsch: command not found bronxville:/home/lms/Documents/Downloads/quanta-3.0 # csh bronxville Downloads/quanta-3.0# ./configure ./configure: Permission denied. bronxville Downloads/quanta-3.0#
First off, sorry about my double typo, I should have written tcsh (opps! guess I'm developing dislexia :( The other thing is, maybe check the config.log if it was even able to generate one. Have you been trying it as root? I can do ./configure as normal user, but just a thought in case it is a permission elsewhere. Maybe the config file is damaged? I have the following md5sum (not sure if this helps any or not): fd0ce8c4e72a12f6dbaf82814c873a44 configure good luck -jeric -- JericAtSbcglobalDotNetwork 9:47pm up 9 days, 13:36, 6 users, load average: 0.39, 0.39, 0.30
On Fri, 2002-11-29 at 21:48, L. Mark Stone wrote:
I'm trying to install the latest version of Quanta. Yast and apt do not have the latest version, so I d/l'd the bz2 file from Sourceforge.
After I expanded the file, I went to run ./configure, and got the following:
bronxville:/home/lms/Documents/Downloads/quanta-3.0 # ./configure bash: ./configure: /bin/sh: bad interpreter: Permission denied bronxville:/home/lms/Documents/Downloads/quanta-3.0 #
I'm running SuSE 8.1.
I'm not a programmer, so the whole build process is something I do rote, without really understanding what's going on. I don't want to be a programmer either; I just want to run the app!
Thanks!
From my DOS, OS/2 and Windows experiences, I am hesitant to mess with
I changed the extract directory to a partition that is formatted ResierFS. Originally, the archive was extracted to a FAT32 partition. Now ./configure does at least run, but it complains it can't find my X libs and that I should add them to my path. <sigh> path variables in principle, let alone with X libraries. Any help out there in path land? Thanks! Mark -- ______________________________________________ A Message From L. Mark Stone http://www.lmstone.com
On Sunday 01 December 2002 19.23, L. Mark Stone wrote:
bronxville:/home/lms/Documents/Downloads/quanta-3.0 # ./configure bash: ./configure: /bin/sh: bad interpreter: Permission denied bronxville:/home/lms/Documents/Downloads/quanta-3.0 # Now ./configure does at least run, but it complains it can't find my X libs and that I should add them to my path. <sigh>
From my DOS, OS/2 and Windows experiences, I am hesitant to mess with path variables in principle, let alone with X libraries.
Any help out there in path land?
Judging from the look of your prompt above I'd guess you're running configure as root, is that right? If you are, don't! configure and compile as user, and only su to root to run "make install". If that doesn't help, make sure you have the package xdevel installed. As for why your configure refused to run before, you were probably trying to run it from a partition that was mounted "noexec", which means that no programs may be run from there. If you had explicitly specified "exec" as a mount option you could have run it from there.
The 02.12.01 at 13:23, L. Mark Stone wrote:
I changed the extract directory to a partition that is formatted ResierFS. Originally, the archive was extracted to a FAT32 partition.
Ah! You can not run programs inside a fat partition, not normally. Just call "mount", and note the "noexec" on the fat partition entry: nimrodel:/etc/logrotate.d # mount /dev/hdb6 on / type reiserfs (rw,barrier=none) proc on /proc type proc (rw) devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,mode=0620,gid=5) /dev/hdb2 on /boot type ext2 (rw) shmfs on /dev/shm type shm (rw) /dev/hda1 on /windows/C type vfat (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,gid=100,umask=0002,iocharset=iso8859-1,code=437) Note that fat partitions do not support unix type atributes (like executable) -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson
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