Subject: config.sub permissions
To: None <tech-pkg@netbsd.org>
From: Martti Kuparinen <martti.kuparinen@iki.fi>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 10/01/2002 14:37:41
Hi!

Is the gdbm's configure system broken as it tries to _execute_ config.sub?
Changing the permissions to 755 fixed this. Anyone else having this kind
of problem with gdbm?

# make install
===> Configuring for gdbm-1.8.0
...
checking for a BSD compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c -o root -g wheel
configure: error: can not run ./config.sub
*** Error code 1

# ls -l work/gdbm-1.8.0/config.sub
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  users  36 Oct  1 14:28 work/gdbm-1.8.0/config.sub -> /usr/pkgsrc/mk/gnu-config/config.sub


# chmod 755 /usr/pkgsrc/mk/gnu-config/config.sub
# make install
...
===> Registering installation for gdbm-1.8.0

Martti

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