Re: ./guile-config : permission denied

[Jon Wilson]

Hi Gopi,
Are you sure that the execute permissions are set for the guile-config 
executable?  Check this with ls -l /path/to/guile-config .  It should 
look something like

$ ls -l /usr/local/bin/guile-config
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 9110 2006-11-30 10:00 /usr/local/bin/guile-config

The gibberish at the beginning of the line is the permissions.  r is 
read, w is write, x is execute.  The first rwx is for the owner of the 
file (root in this case), the second r-x is for any user in the group 
(root) that owns the file, and the third r-x is for all other users.  
That initial - is for a few special things, like marking directories.

If you lack the x on the third set of permissions, then most users will 
not be able to execute guile-config, and in fact it will fail with just 
the error message you received.  If you lack the x on all three sets of 
permissions, then nobody (yes not even root) will be able to execute 
guile-config.

You can change the permissions with chmod (1).  Try

$ chmod a+x /path/to/guile-config

This will set the execute bit for owner, group, and others, that is, for 
all three permissions categories.  It will leave the read and write bits 
unchanged.

Regards,
Jon

Gopi kumaran wrote:
> when i run ./configure in guile-1.8.1 it stops by saying
>  
> checking for guile...guile-config:permission denied
> configure:cannot find guile-config;is Guile installed?
>  
> wht to do?I went to /usr/local/bin(i assume that it will check in this 
> folder).i tried to run ./guile-config in  /usr/local/bin/guile-config 
> folder it says
> ./guile-config:permission denied
> I changed to su and then tried but still same problem
>  
> Any help
> regards
> gopi
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