Re: configure complexity

[Bruce Korb]

On 05/09/13 09:24, Mona Pinjani wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I downloaded complexity-1.0 from http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/complexity/
>
> I am trying to run configure and I get this error
> -bash-4.1$ pwd
> /home/monap/complexity-1.0
> -bash-4.1$ ./configure
> ## -------------------------- ##
> ## Configuring complexity 1.0 ##
> ## -------------------------- ##
> configure: error: cannot run /bin/sh ./../config.sub
>
> How can I install complexity ?

Hi Mona,

I do not know because that should work.  I guess somehow
ac_aux_dir became set to "./..".  It should be "build-aux"

> $ fgrep ac_aux_dir= cfg.log
> + ac_aux_dir=
> + ac_aux_dir=./..
> + ac_aux_dir=
> + ac_aux_dir=build-aux

That is derived from two loops in the configure script:
> ac_aux_dir=
> for ac_dir in "$srcdir" "$srcdir/.." "$srcdir/../.."; do
>   if test -f "$ac_dir/install-sh"; then
>     ac_aux_dir=$ac_dir
>     ac_install_sh="$ac_aux_dir/install-sh -c"
>     break
>   elif test -f "$ac_dir/install.sh"; then
>     ac_aux_dir=$ac_dir
>     ac_install_sh="$ac_aux_dir/install.sh -c"
>     break
>   elif test -f "$ac_dir/shtool"; then
>     ac_aux_dir=$ac_dir
>     ac_install_sh="$ac_aux_dir/shtool install -c"
>     break
>   fi
> done

> ac_aux_dir=
> for ac_dir in build-aux "$srcdir"/build-aux; do
>   if test -f "$ac_dir/install-sh"; then
>     ac_aux_dir=$ac_dir
>     ac_install_sh="$ac_aux_dir/install-sh -c"
>     break
>   elif test -f "$ac_dir/install.sh"; then
>     ac_aux_dir=$ac_dir
>     ac_install_sh="$ac_aux_dir/install.sh -c"
>     break
>   elif test -f "$ac_dir/shtool"; then
>     ac_aux_dir=$ac_dir
>     ac_install_sh="$ac_aux_dir/shtool install -c"
>     break
>   fi
> done

Perhaps you have an "install-sh" script in the superior directory?
Or, maybe, the second loop was skipped?
Or, maybe, config.sub got invoked before the second search took place?

Could you please:
1. ensure there is no install-sh script in /home/monap, and
2. run build-aux/config.guess and provide the output, and last:
3. grep 'Generated by GNU Autoconf' configure

Thanks.  - Bruce