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Re: ImageMagick configure issues.


From: Ralf Wildenhues
Subject: Re: ImageMagick configure issues.
Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2009 17:04:18 +0100
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17)

Hello Julie,

let's keep the mailing list in Cc:, and please don't top-post, thanks!

* Julie Bell wrote on Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 12:27:15PM CET:
> > From: Ralf Wildenhues
> > * Julie Bell wrote on Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 07:45:54PM CET:
> > > I am in this directory as super user.
> > > ./configure CC=cc --without-perl
> > > 
> > > I get 
> > > .configure[1225] : is not an identifier.
> > 
> > Hmm.  I remember seeing this before, but it's been a while.  Can you
> > post the output of
> >   ./configure --version
> > 
> > so we know which Autoconf version this comes from?

Please answer this question, thanks.

> > The most likely reason for such errors are bugs in the shell; some
> > experience memory corruption and then fail rather unpredictably.
> > If you have a less buggy shell on this system, for example bash, you
> > can try running
> >   CONFIG_SHELL=/usr/bin/bash /usr/bin/bash ./configure CC=cc --without-perl
> > 
> > with the paths to the shell adjusted, and see if it works better
> > (sorry about the need to duplicate this).
> > 
> > Of course you can also try one of the other Bourne-like shells that
> > this system has installed.

> Yes, I have awk, nawk, mawk, sed in /usr/bin with 
> I believe they have 777 permissions.
> I have tried running this as superuser and without being super user.
> 
> Any other suggestions?

Well, yes: try using another shell available on the system, like I
wrote, see the quoted text.  Please don't hesitate to post output of
those other shells if that still doesn't work.

Cheers,
Ralf




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