Re: Build problem (./configure fails) on BSD system

On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 03:36:44AM -0500, [email protected] wrote:
> I'm trying to ./configure tin on a BSD system.
> 
> 'uname -a' returns "OpenBSD leary2.csoft.net 3.8 GENERIC#247 amd64",
> it's not my own system, just a system where I have a shell account.
> 
> The ./configure fails almost at the first hurdle:-
> 
>     ./configure --prefix=$HOME --enable-nntp-only
>     loading cache ./config.cache
>     checking for X... ./configure[846]: cd: conftestdir: bad directory
>     libraries /usr/X11R6/lib, headers /usr/X11R6/include
>     configure: error: can not find install-sh or install.sh in . ./..  ./../..
> 
> I've run other ./configure scripts on this system (well, one other)
> with no problems so is there a workaround for this tin problem?
> 
A little bit of further information - there *is* an install.sh in the
directory where I'm running ./configure (part of what is unpacked from
the tar file) and . is on my path so the above error from configure is
wrong.

I'm confused!

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Chris Green ([email protected])