./configure question

[easg]

I cann´t use the ./configure command, do I have to install something else in order to use it, I´m using red hat 9 the instruction for xine are ./configure then make install and then install.

[mairving]

Make sure that the file is executable, ls -l will give you the permissions. If it is executable, then do you get any error message when you run it. Here is an example:

ls -l configure -rwxr-xr-x 1 1078 1078 56615 May 21 2002 configure*

This shows that the owner of the file has full rwxr permissions, a member of the group has xr and everybody has x. So if you ran this:

./configure --help [hang on a moment, generating help] Usage: configure [options] Options: [defaults in brackets after descriptions] General options: --quiet, --silent do not print messages --verbose, -v print even more messages --shadow[=DIR] switch to a shadow tree (under DIR) for building Stand-alone options: --help, -h print this message

This is the configure file for Apache.