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

On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 12:25:08PM +0200, Urs Janßen wrote:
> On Mi, Mai 17, 2006 at 03:36:44 -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=$HOME --enable-nntp-only
> >     loading cache ./config.cache
> 
> the should be no config.cache on the first run (and using a cache from
> another host might cause strange errors). remove the cached files before you
> run configure. "make distclean" should remove all cachecd files.
> 
> make distclean && ./configure --prefix=$HOME --enable-nntp-only
> 
No, exactly the same result, it was originally a clean unpack of the
tar file, I just repeated it to copy the result to my mail message.

For what it's worth here's the result of running what you suggest
above:-

    mail63$ make distclean && ./configure --prefix=$HOME --enable-nntp-only
    rm -f *.CKP *.ln *.BAK *.bak *.o core errs ,* *~ *.a .emacs_* tags TAGS make.log MakeOut *.core  "#"*
    rm -f Makefile .depend
    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 . ./..  ./../..


... but there is an install.sh:-

    mail63$ ls -l install.sh
    -rwxr-xr-x  1 chrisisbd  users  7123 Jun 28  2005 install.sh


Thanks for the reply.

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Chris Green ([email protected])