I would like to compile the GNU coreutils, findutils, and GREP on a Red Hat
9.0 machine with all packages installed.

I get the following error when running "./configure" for all three
packages:

": bad interpreter: No such file or directory"

My Linux skills are somewhat basic, so I don't know how to resolve this.
The system is completely default, I just installed it a few days ago.

Thanks for the advice!

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On Thu, 16 Sep 2004 10:21:21 -0700 Thundersmash wrote:

> I would like to compile the GNU coreutils, findutils, and GREP on a Red Ha
t
> 9.0 machine with all packages installed.
>
>  I get the following error when running "./configure" for all three
> packages:
>
>  ": bad interpreter: No such file or directory"

head -1 configure

That will print out the so called shebang line, pointing to the needed
interpreter. Be sure you have that one installed.

Alexander


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"Alexander Dalloz" <alexander.dalloz@uni-bielefeld.de> wrote in message
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> On Thu, 16 Sep 2004 10:21:21 -0700 Thundersmash wrote:
> 
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>
> head -1 configure
>
> That will print out the so called shebang line, pointing to the needed
> interpreter. Be sure you have that one installed.
>
> Alexander

Hi Alexander,

When I run "head -1 configure" from the GNU coreutils directory I made, I
get:

"#! /bin/sh"

So I tried "sh ./configure" and got:

:command not found3
./configure: line 21:syntax error near unexpected token 'elif'
./configure: line 21: 'elif test -n "${BASH_VERSION+set}" && (set -o p
osix)
'/dev/null 2>&1;then

Not sure what that means.  Also, I ran "sh" and tried "./configure" from
that shell.  I got:

": bad interpreter: No such file or directory"

I'm surprised I can't get coreutils compiled quickly on a default (with full
packages) installation of Red Hat 9.  Maybe I'm screwed something up?  I'm
using the latest stable coreutils source as of this morning from the GNU
site.

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