Bizarre error while ./configure-ing PIL
Jo Meder
jo at delorges.in-berlin.de
Wed Jun 2 20:19:27 EDT 1999
Michael Hudson <mwh21 at cam.ac.uk> writes:
> Matt Gushee <mgushee at ime.net> writes:
[reasonable permissions for ./configure]
> > bash: ./configure: Permission denied
> 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?
Actually the line reads
#! /bin/sh
^note the space
but why this should lead to "Permission denied", I don't know.
I tried it with tcsh, zsh, bash, ksh, ash and not one of them barfed
at the line.
Jo.
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