HOWTO run to configure in Cygwin b20.1 [Re: Cygwin B20.1 - ./configure]

Mumit Khan khan@NanoTech.Wisc.EDU
Fri Dec 31 13:28:00 GMT 1999


Martin Weber <martweb@gmx.net> writes:
> I installed Cygwin B20.1. All seems to work exept I get the following
> message if I try to execute any configure-script. I changed correctly to
> the working directory. Under Linux I didn't have this problem. chmod
> doesn't help.
> BASH.EXE-2.02$ ./configure
> BASH.EXE: ./configure: No such file or directory
> Please help.
> 

That's because configure scripts are written to expect /bin/sh to exist.
A workaround that always works:
  
  $ CONFIG_SHELL=bash bash ./configure [... options to configure ...]

You can substitute "sh" for "bash" above, and should run faster then.

Regards,
Mumit

ps: Please don't send me separate copies (as opposed to using Cc:) of 
postings to this list. 


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