Re: ./guile-config : permission denied

[Jon Wilson]

Hi Neil,
In another email (perhaps in another thread), Gopi said that the usual 
unpack, configure, make, make install was what he did.  The problem with 
alloca seems to be a real bug, but if so, as Kevin has said it would 
properly be a matter for the autoconf people, not us.  I'm waiting on 
getting a shell account on my friend's BSD machine, and once that goes 
through, I will then file a bug report to autoconf.

The problem with guile-config permissions seems to have been an issue 
with not having the guile executable where guile-config expected it.  
This might be a bug, or might not.  There was some confusion because 
Gopi was also sending questions about installing libgraph to this list, 
but it may be that he moved the guile executable to a different location 
for some reason having to do with libgraph.  I will try installing guile 
to some PREFIX other than the default once I have that BSD shell 
account, and if there is a problem with guile-config or with permissions 
on guile, I will definitely say something about it.  Anyway, Gopi's 
friend changed the path to guile after the sha-bang in guile-config, and 
all was well following.

There were two other problems Gopi was having.  One was related to 
libgraph, not to guile.  The other was resolved by installing a 
dependency (libtool, it seems).
Regards,
Jon

Neil Jerram wrote:
> Gopi kumaran <address@hidden> writes:
>
>   
> > when i run ./configure in guile-1.8.1 it stops by saying
> >  
> > checking for guile...guile-config:permission denied
> > configure:cannot find guile-config;is Guile installed?
> >  
> > wht to do?I went to /usr/local/bin(i assume that it will check in this
> > folder).i tried to run ./guile-config in  /usr/local/bin/guile-config folder it
> > says
> >     
>
> I think you need to start from scratch and tell us exactly what you
> have done to unpack and build the Guile tarball.  My impression (from
> this and other emails) is that you've done something unusual.  Are you
> familiar with the usual "tar zxf ..., ./configure, make, make install"
> procedure, and is that what you have done?  Please post a complete
> transcript, starting from unpacking the tarball.
>
> Regards,
>      Neil
>
>
>
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