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Jeebizz · 08-27-2005, 01:34 PM

I don't know what is going on here, but I think I am not extracting an archive correctly or something, because when I finish unzipping a zip file with source code, I go into the directory, and try to do normal stuff as non-root , such as ./configure, but I get a permission denied, I try su, and I get the same error, so I went and chmoded ./configure to rwxrwxrwx , and then I get another error after trying to run ./configure, such as "bad interpretor: No such file or directory". The original permissions of ./configure are

Code:

 -rw-r--r--  1 slackuser users 171446 2004-05-22 09:02 ./configure

And the way I unzip the archive is just unzip file.zip.. ,and i get this..

Code:

ackuser@slacker:~/Desktop$ unzip gens-src-multiplatform-2005feb13.zip
Archive:  gens-src-multiplatform-2005feb13.zip
   creating: gens/
   creating: gens/Gens-MultiPlatform/
   creating: gens/Gens-MultiPlatform/beos/
  inflating: gens/Gens-MultiPlatform/beos/COMPILE.txt
  inflating: gens/Gens-MultiPlatform/beos/comp_m68k.bat
................there is too much to post, so this is just part of it, but it extracts successfully..

Any ideas?

Mega Man X · 08-27-2005, 01:42 PM

Are you sure there's actually a "configure" script on it? Check the compile.txt under linux folder or something. There's also a chance that you've to edit the MakeFile in order to specify the platform you want to build the source since this is a multiplatform file. Not everything compiles with ./configure.

Also, I pretty much doubt you will be able to compile an emulator such as gens. I never could compile one single emulator successfully, except for zsnes (only once, mind you). I don't know if emus have too much dependencies of if the code they release is too buggy for an average user to build... I don't have an explanation for it, but I have a work around:

- Grab a .rpm of .deb pre-compiled binary and either force the install under slackware to do not check for dependencies or using a script such as Alien to convert the .rpm into .tgz (Slackware's native). I recommend converting to .tgz first.

You can find gens .rpms here:

http://rpm.pbone.net/

again, it's up to you, but you've been warned that it's hard to compile those things (emulators are my hobby kinda of thing, so I try pretty much everything out there on my free time

).

Good luck!

Jeebizz · 08-27-2005, 01:48 PM

Thats odd, because I checked the README and INSTALL and under the readme file, it says just to do configure, so I tried that, and get permission denied, and the INSTALL says to do ./configure, and tried that, and get the same message, so there HAS to be a script... But I'm just going to go ahead and try your suggestion....My only problem with binary is that gens may not run well under my machine, since I have a 450Mhz k6-2 pc, but under windows Gens, and ZSnes run just fine, but under linux I had to tweak ./configure to even get a proper framerate under zsnes, and thats just without loading any roms...

edit: By the way, there are only Mandrake and Suse rpms available

nixcraft · 08-27-2005, 01:50 PM

See if first line of configure is
#! /bin/sh

Check that the /bin/sh file exists and that it works :-)

Or try command:

Code:

bash configure

Make sure /home dir has the exec attribute set (i.e. it should NOT have noexec attribute set use mount command to see).

Hope this helps

Jeebizz · 08-27-2005, 01:54 PM

yep, I pico-ed configure , and I got this...

Code:

#! /bin/sh
# Guess values for system-dependent variables and create Makefiles.
# Generated by GNU Autoconf 2.59.
#
# Copyright (C) 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
# This configure script is free software; the Free Software Foundation
# gives unlimited permission to copy, distribute and modify it.
## --------------------- ##
## M4sh Initialization.  ##
## --------------------- ##

and this is the output to 'bash configure'

Code:

slackuser@slacker:~/Desktop/gens/GensForLinux$ bash configure
: command not found
configure: line 19: syntax error near unexpected token `elif'
configure: line 19: `elif test -n "${BASH_VERSION+set}" && (set -o posix) >/dev/null 2>&1;'then

nixcraft · 08-28-2005, 04:07 AM

It means your software file i.e. configure itself has syntax error, solution is fix yourself or report this bug to your software vendor or project