On Thu, 16 Sep 2004 12:34:36 -0700 Thundersmash wrote:

> Instead of burning the contents of the GNU packages from my Windows machin
e,
> I burned the archives themselves from Windows and then unpacked them on Re
d
> Hat.  The configure scripts are working now!  I guess the process of
> unpacking the GNU packages on my Windows machine before burning to CD did 
in
> fact change the contents of those files.

O dear, yes - the Widows file systems do not know anything about the file
permissions a Linux system uses. At least when you burn unpackaged UNIX
sources all is kind of damaged and will not properly function on the
target Linux system.
You shoud have given such fundamental informations about your acting.

Alexander


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