From: Scott Hochberg (scott@savepostage.com)
Date: Sun Dec 29 2002 - 13:05:06 CST
Hi,
Trying to install hypermail-2.1.5 on linux server in a shared "virtual host"
environment where I don't have access to very top level directories.
Configure fails, with:
loading cache ./config.cache
./configure: /dev/null: Permission denied
./configure: /dev/null: Permission denied
configure: error: can not run ./config.sub
Tech support at the host told me:
>In researching your ticket I found that because telnet is not set as a
changeroot enviroment you >will need to specify the absolute path the your
dev/null file as follows:
>./configure: /vs6/vs6/scotthoc/dev/null
I tried that, and also tried ./configure --prefix=/vs6/vs6/scotthoc
both results in the same failure as shown above.
But, I tried going into the configure script and others and substituting
/vs6/vs6/scotthoc/dev/null
for /dev/null wherever it appeared, and I got farther as follows:
loading cache ./config.cache
checking host system type... ./config.guess: 135027600: Permission denied
i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking target system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking cached information... ok
checking for gcc... gcc
checking whether the C compiler (gcc ) works... ./configure: 134927552:
Permission denied
no configure: error: installation or configuration problem: C compiler
cannot create executables.
but still failed.
My hunch is there are other places that a similar substitution must be made,
but have no clue how to systematically find them or enter a command line
parameter to get make the appropriate changes.
Can anyone help??
Many thanks.
Scott Hochberg
Postage $aver Software
savepostage.com