Re: help on installation

[Wayne Dernoncourt <wayned@cpcug.org>]

On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, Ian Roxborough wrote:

> Wayne Dernoncourt wrote:

> > On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, Ian Roxborough wrote:
> > > conftest.c is generated by configure to check the basics
> > > of your compiler.  Does you compiler work for a quick
> > > "Hello World!" program?

> > I just dug up a small C program that I had written back in August for
> > a class, it compiled and linked fine.

> Well that's good (assuming that you used the same gcc).

It could be the wrong make (wrong version), so far there are at
least two versions of make, gmake could also be there somewhere.
Not sure how to find out which one is being used - which just
returns - no results.

> > > If you look in config.log you should get more information
> > > on why it failed.

> > I don't see a config.log anywhere in my current directory structure.
> > I used ls -lR * |grep "Mar 13", here are the results:

> config.log will be in the same directory that you run configure in.
> Note that you should not runing configure in the source directory.
> Create a build directory and run configure from there. I.e

> $ mkdir build
> $ cd build
> $ ../src/configure --prefix=/where/you/want/to/install
> $ less config.log

I would think the log file would be in the same directory I ran it
from.  I had unzipped and untarred in my home directory (~) which
created ~/SN452, I ran configure from ~ (./SN452/configure).  Maybe
I'll create a sub-directory and see what happens.  But I didn't
see a log file in ~.  It only took a dozen or so trys with an error
message of "needs to be run from a parallel directory" - maybe
since I'm a level above, not a peer level it doesn't work....

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