./configure - no such file or dir

[mstembri3]

This is a fresh install of RH7.0. The only reference to configure I found is /usr/share/man/mann/fconfigure.n.gz

What do I need to do to get this function working? (I'm thinking that the compile tools aren't installed?)

[bdg1983]

What exactly are you trying to do? If you are compiling and installing a new package, then untar/unzip the package, change to the newly created directory, read the README and then issue ./configure

There's a NHF on the subject of installing software packages.

[X_console]

./configure is not a program that's installed on any distribution. It's a script that comes with a .tar.gz package. Here's the NHF http://www.linuxnewbie.org/nhf/intel/compiling/softinstall.html

[mstembri3]

Bookmarked it last week.

While the page explains what configure does, it does not tell what it is (or that it is a script included with each tarball).

It's configuring now, but I think I have more work to do... 'error: no acceptable cc found in $PATH'

echo $PATH returns the following:

/usr/local/bin:/bin:usr/bin:usr/X11R6/bin:home/username/bin

[ 24 February 2001: Message edited by: mstembri3 ]