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RE: New Cygwin install and "configure: command not found" installing other packages
> From: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com
> [mailto:cygwin-owner@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of Sjors Gielen
> Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2009 11:21 AM
> To: cygwin@cygwin.com
> Subject: Re: New Cygwin install and "configure: command not
> found" installing other packages
<snip>
> 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
I would swear that I had used "./" and not ".\" but, apparently, I hadn't
because (of course) now it works with the correct command.
Thanks for the explanation (that made be retry it).
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