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Re: New Cygwin install and "configure: command not found" installing other packages


Bill Klein wrote:

A) my hope is to use as little "shell" as possible. I am installing Cygwin in order to be able to use a specific "product" that does not (normally) require shell programming.

B) I am using the commands as they appear in the INSTALL file for the
packages that I am using. (I simply made a typo in my original note)

C) After trying the original command, I ran this from the directory where
the "configure" file was (which I verified with "dir").

when I typed
   configure
it got the "configure: command not found" message

when I typed
   sh configure

it worked.

That's because when you type 'configure', it searches for a file with that name in your $PATH, i.e. in /bin, /usr/bin, but not in the local directory (.). `sh` is in /bin/sh, and it searches in the current directory, so `sh configure` works. However, it's better to run:


./configure

as then you explicitly say "I want to run configure in this directory".


The file "configure" is NOT something that I created but was supplied with
the packages. Two packages that have had this same problem are "from
reliable" sites. For example:
http://gmplib.org/
http://www.gnu.org/software/libtool/libtool.html

We know. Configure is a standard program that prepares compilation.


Sjors

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