FFMPEG won't configure for iPhone

Question

I have downloaded FFMPEG via svn, and put the gas-preprocessor into usr/local/bin. But, when I try to post the following code into terminal, it says: "-bash: ./configure: No such file or directory"

This is the code:

./configure --cc=/Developer/Platforms/iPhoneOS.platform/Developer/usr/bin/gcc --as='gas-preprocessor.pl /Developer/Platforms/iPhoneOS.platform/Developer/usr/bin/gcc' --sysroot=/Developer/Platforms/iPhoneOS.platform/Developer/SDKs/iPhoneOS3.1.sdk --enable-cross-compile --target-os=darwin --arch=arm --cpu=arm1176jzf-s --disable-pic --enable-gpl --enable-postproc --disable-debug --disable-stripping --enable-avfilter --enable-avfilter-lavf --extra-cflags='-arch armv6' --extra-ldflags='-arch armv6'

I am using Snow Leopard 10.6.1. What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

The error is that it's not finding "configure" in the shell's current directory. What's your current working directory when you run this?

Answer 2

Sometimes the shell script you're trying to run has the wrong path for the hashbang at the top of the file (which is then reported correctly but ambiguously as a missing file). Open up the configure script and check the path it's trying to run.

For example, take a look at the top of this configure script:

[on mymachine in directory sqsh-2.1.5]$ head -3 configure
#! /bin/sh
# Guess values for system-dependent variables and create Makefiles.
# Generated by GNU Autoconf 2.59.

If for some reason /bin/sh does not exist, you'll get a file not found error.