Re: ./guile-config : permission denied

[Jon Wilson]

Hi Gopi,
Could you make sure that /usr/local/bin is in your PATH?  Try

echo $PATH

You should get a colon-separated list of directories.  If /usr/local/bin 
is not there, then we have a problem.  I shouldn't think this is root 
problem, however, as it doesn't say it cannot find guile-config, but 
that permission is denied.

Maybe the permissions on /usr/local/bin or /usr/local are wrong.  Could 
you check the permissions on those directories as well?  (use ls -ld so 
you get the directory instead of its contents)

Try running

/usr/local/bin/guile-config

directly yourself.  See if you can do that without running the script.

Beyond that, I'm stumped.  Anyone else got any ideas?

Regards,
Jon

Gopi kumaran wrote:
> Hi Jon
>  
> Let me tell you that guile-config is in /usr/local/bin folder.Actually 
> it is found in guile-1.8.1 folder.I copied it to /usr/local/bin folder 
> as i thought it will check in that folder only (for sdl-config it 
> checked in /usr/local/bin only).Then wehn i run ./configure same problem
> guile-config permission denied.i checked the permisions ls - l 
> /usr/local/bin/guile-config it says
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 9104 dec 2 15:14 guile-config
>  
> what to do now?is it because that i copied the folder to that bin folder?
> help me
>  
> regards
> gopi
>
>
> */Jon Wilson <address@hidden>/* wrote:
>
>     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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