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 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
