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

[Sjors Gielen]

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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