Simple Unix question - Configure

Question

I'm using Solaris 10, ksh. Whenever I do a ./configure, I get the error "ksh: ./configure: not found"

When I do a "where configure", nothing is found.

How do I "install configure"?

Answer 1

"./configure" means "run the program configure from the current directory". That is, you need to cd to the directory that configure lives in before attempting to run it like that.

As for where configure might be found, it's usually at the root of whatever source package you're trying to build.

Answer 2

./configure means that you want to run an executable called configure in your current directory (signified by a .). I'm guessing you're trying to build and install from source, and the directions say to do the standard ./configure; make; make install. You should do that from the top-level directory of the source you downloaded and unpacked:

$ cd /path/to/source
$ ./configure
$ make
$ make install

Answer 3

I'm not a Solaris guy, but the configure script should be within your current directory before you execute it. I am assuming you're trying to build something. If it's a project of your own, take a look at GNU autoconf. (I have no idea if this a part of Solaris or not.) It's part of M4.

If it's a project that you downloaded, untar/unzip/unpack it and then cd to its directory before running the configure script.

Answer 4

I had to run a command for another directory; and then that popped everything up :)

In case someone else comes across this specific issue, I'm trying to install the Perl-Php plugin on a Solaris machine. Initially, there is no configure file; instead you have to find where your "phpize" is located -- for me it was /opt/webstack/php/5.2/phpize, run it while you are still in the "perl-php-plugin" folder, and then configure will appear.

Then you can ./configure :)

Thanks to everyone who responded.