Bizarre error while ./configure-ing PIL
Michael Hudson
mwh21 at cam.ac.uk
Wed Jun 2 17:34:46 EDT 1999
Matt Gushee <mgushee at ime.net> writes:
> Hello, folks--
>
> This may be the weirdest thing I've yet seen happen on a Linux
> box. I'm running RedHat Linux 5.2 and trying to compile PIL 1.0b1. I
> have a feeling this isn't really a PIL- or Python-specific problem,
> but just in case anyone's run into this:
>
> [matt at crawdad Imaging-1.0b1]$ ls -dl libImaging
> drwxr-xr-x 2 matt matt 2048 Jun 1 03:26 libImaging
> [matt at crawdad Imaging-1.0b1]$ cd libImaging/
> [matt at crawdad libImaging]$ ls -l configure
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 matt matt 65845 Jan 10 04:29 configure
> [matt at crawdad libImaging]$ ./configure
> bash: ./configure: Permission denied
> [matt at crawdad libImaging]$ su
> Password:
> [root at crawdad libImaging]# ./configure
> bash: ./configure: Permission denied
>
> What the --- ?
Random guess, but check the first line of ./configure. It should
probably read
#!/bin/sh
My guess is either 1) /bin/sh is not executable (very unlikely, all
sorts of things would barf at that) 2) the line's gotten mangled
somehows - maybe a misplaced space?
HTH
Michael
> Extremely puzzledly yours,
> Matt Gushee
> Portland, Maine, USA
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