./configure - Permission Denied

./configure - Permission Denied

[Schaefer, Kendra]

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"

Re: ./configure - Permission Denied

[Mathieu Dube]

Are you doing this in your home directory ?

if youre not there and for instance /usr/local you need to be root or have the
permissions 

On Wed, 21 Feb 2001, you wrote:
> 
> 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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Re: ./configure - Permission Denied

[Kevin Buettner]

On Feb 21,  4:28pm, Schaefer, Kendra wrote:

> 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?

How are the permissions and owner set on this file?

Kevin

Re: ./configure - Permission Denied

[Mathieu Dube]

with chmod and chown

if its in your dir there shouldnt be any problem

try it in /home/kevin(or whatever username you have)/gdb


On Wed, 21 Feb 2001, you wrote:
> On Feb 21,  4:28pm, Schaefer, Kendra wrote:
> 
> > 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?
> 
> How are the permissions and owner set on this file?
> 
> Kevin
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Re: ./configure - Permission Denied

[Kevin Buettner]

On Feb 21,  8:36pm, Mathieu Dube wrote:

> On Wed, 21 Feb 2001, you wrote:
> > On Feb 21,  4:28pm, Schaefer, Kendra wrote:
> > 
> > > 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?
> > 
> > How are the permissions and owner set on this file?
>
> with chmod and chown
> 
> if its in your dir there shouldnt be any problem
> 
> try it in /home/kevin(or whatever username you have)/gdb

You misunderstand.  I was asking Kendra what the permissions and
owner were set to on configure.  I figured that the most likely
problem was that either the execute bit was not set or else it
was set, but Kendra did not have permission to execute the file
due to the owner being different.  A simple ``ls -l ./configure''
will give the answer.

Kevin