./configure - Permission Denied

["Schaefer, Kendra" <Kendra.Schaefer@harley-davidson.com>]

I am trying to build gdb, and when I type ./configure in the gdb-5.0
directory, it says "Permission Denied."  Is this something I am doing wrong?

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From chastain@cygnus.com Wed Feb 21 15:41:00 2001
From: Michael Elizabeth Chastain <chastain@cygnus.com>
To: gdb@sources.redhat.com, Kendra.Schaefer@harley-davidson.com
Subject: Re: ./configure - Permission Denied
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 15:41:00 -0000
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Try this.  If your source is in /foo/bar/gdb-5.0:

  mkdir /foo/bar/build
  mkdir /foo/bar/install
  cd /foo/bar/build
  sh /foo/bar/gdb-5.0/configure --prefix=/foo/bar/install
  make
  make install

The important part is the "sh" part.  The other parts will make the
build go better in other ways.

Hope this helps,

Michael Elizabeth Chastain
<chastain@redhat.com>
"love without fear"