./configure: Permission denied

Qing Feng · 11-16-2004, 08:19 AM

Hi All

I got the following error

when I run ./configure --prefix=/mysql/mysql-3.22.32/
I get ./configure: Permission denied

So I checked to see if the sh file exists and it does
ln -s /bin/bash /bin/sh
ln: cannot create /bin/sh: File exists

Then when I ran the following I got
/bin/bash ./configure
I didn't find the script './scripts/mysql_install_db'.
Please execute this script in the mysql distribution directory!

Any ideas?

secesh · 11-16-2004, 08:32 AM

Code:

ls -l

--with attention paid to 'configure'

[edit]
perhaps:

Code:

ls -l |grep configure

[/edit]

scuzzman · 11-16-2004, 09:21 AM

make sure configure is executable

Kreature · 11-16-2004, 11:08 AM

and also make sure its not a directory where you need root privilages you might have to su to configure it but i could be wrong not the biggest linux expert pretty newbish accually lol