./configure question

[Denny White]

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On Thu, 16 Jun 2005, Chuck Swiger wrote:

> Denny White wrote:
> [ ... ]
>> Okay, I messed up again. I described it wrong
>> before. I should've said, if I do
>> 
>> /usr/src/contrib/binutils/./configure -args
>> 
>> It works okay. I found that with locate.
>
> Are you trying to build src/contrib/binutils?  What for?
>
>> Could I have messed up scripts in /usr/ports
>> or somewhere else when I rebuilt everything?
>
> Dunno.  What is the problem you have with ports?
>
>> I never had to add any path to ./configure
>> before. After I wrote this message, I thought
>> about paths & did some looking with locate.
>> That's what seems to be my problem. Wrong
>> path in env, something missing, etc.
>
> Run the script command.  Do something which shows what you think is a 
> problem.  Exit from the shell, and paste the contents of the "typescript" 
> file created into email so you can show exactly what the error message is.
>
> -- 
> -Chuck
>
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Okay, I see I'm in such a confused state that I appear
to be confusing others. I had read somewhere that you
can go into a port dir you want to install, and do
make extract & then cd into the work dir just created,
you could do a ./configure with some option afterward
that would show you all the available arguments/options
you can include when you configure it before making it,
instead of reading the makefile. Then, in that dir, you
do ./configure --arguments --options to get it ready
to build it the way you want. And, instead of that, you
can also do ./configure \ which puts you in a shell on
the next line where you enter all the arguments and then
exit on an empty line when you're done. Which, btw, works
for me. I hope this time I've made it more clear. And
no, I'm not trying to build binutils.


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