Re: #! /bin/sh bash problem

[Chet Ramey]

John B. Brown wrote:
> From: jbb
> To: bug-bash@gnu.org
> Subject: gnu software "configure" error
>
> Configuration Information [Automatically generated, do not change]:
> Machine: i586
> OS: linux-gnu
> Compiler: gcc -I/usr/src/packages/BUILD/bash-3.2 
> -L/usr/src/packages/BUILD/bash-3.2/../readline-5.2
> Compilation CFLAGS:  -DPROGRAM='bash' -DCONF_HOSTTYPE='i586' 
> -DCONF_OSTYPE='linux-gnu' -DCONF_MACHTYPE='i586-suse-linux-gnu' 
> -DCONF_VENDOR='suse' -DLOCALEDIR='/usr/share/locale' -DPACKAGE='bash' 
> -DSHELL -DHAVE_CONFIG_H   -I.  -I. -I./include -I./lib   -O2 -march=i586 
> -mtune=i686 -fmessage-length=0 -Wall -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 
> -fstack-protector -g -D_GNU_SOURCE -DRECYCLES_PIDS -Wall -pipe -g -fPIE 
> -fprofile-use
> uname output: Linux pinball 2.6.22.17-0.1-default #1 SMP 2008/02/10 
> 20:01:04 UTC i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
> Machine Type: i586-suse-linux-gnu
>
> Bash Version: 3.2
> Patch Level: 25
> Release Status: release
>
> Description: Attempting to run 'configure', or any shell script with #! 
> /bin/sh,  results in the error message:
>
>
>     "bash: ./configure: /usr/bin/bash: bad interpreter: Permission denied"

This is generally due to the file permission bits on a program -- in
this case /usr/bin/bash -- denying execute access.  You might also
investigate whether or not /bin/bash is supposed to be symlinked to
/usr/bin/bash, which appears to be the case here.

Chet
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