Your emails inspired me to plot on. I had not su'd to root, which may have been a problem. After doing so, however, I received the same errors with # ./configure make (Note: this specific command is from the gftp installation instructions) In both cases (su and not su), it appeared as though make had failed. This time, I chose to plug my nose and dive in with # make install and it appears to work, installing to /usr/bin (although I did repeat the ./configure --prefix=/usr, as suggested, just to be sure that the paths were preserved). gftp is now running and working on a transfer. It's a large transfer, and I have yet to see if it's successful, but it has moved beyond the crashing point that I was experiencing with version 2.0.18. Cross fingers. I'll let you know if it's successful. Thanks for your suggestions and comments! luton98@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: Indeed. I've just tried ./configure make make install (after su'ing to root) and it compiled and installed like a dream. ============================================ Original Message I don't have a linux/unix machine in front of me, but I don't think you're supposed to type "./configure make", rather you should just type something like "make" or "make install" without the configure in front of it. BTW you may want to re-run ./configure --prefix=/usr because the second time you ran configure it may have overwrote the settings from the first time... -------------------------------------------------- From: "Rachael Mueller" <rmueller@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, September 22, 2009 4:24 PM To: <gftp-users@xxxxxxxx> Subject: [gftp] compile failedAfter receiving various segmentation fault errors & crashes with gftp 2.0.18, I decided to upgrade to 2.0.19. Unfortunately, I am stuck at configure and could use some help. I am running a CentOS, Gnome v. 2.16.0. Here is what I've done so far: Uninstalled gftp using "sudo rpm -e gftp" & downloaded gftp-2.0.19.tar.gz from <http://gftp.seul.org/> Changed Install location to /usr/bin, using:./configure --prefix=/usrwhich seemed to work. A long list of "checking for...yes/no" ensued Next: ./configure make output: configure: WARNING: you should use --build, --host, --target checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c checking whether build environment is sane... yes checking for gawk... gawk checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes checking for style of include used by make... GNU checking for make-gcc... no checking for gcc... gcc checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out checking whether the C compiler works... yes checking whether we are cross compiling... no checking for suffix of executables... checking for suffix of object files... o checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed checking dependency style of gcc... gcc3 checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /bin/grep checking for egrep... /bin/grep -E checking for AIX... no checking for ANSI C header files... yes checking for sys/types.h... yes checking for sys/stat.h... yes checking for stdlib.h... yes checking for string.h... yes checking for memory.h... yes checking for strings.h... yes checking for inttypes.h... yes checking for stdint.h... yes checking for unistd.h... yes checking minix/config.h usability... no checking minix/config.h presence... no checking for minix/config.h... no checking whether it is safe to define __EXTENSIONS__... yes checking build system type... Invalid configuration `make': machine `make' not recognized configure: error: /bin/sh ./config.sub make failed Thanks! -- Rachael D. Mueller Oregon State University (COAS), and Earth & Space Research http://oregonstate.edu/~muellerr/ ph(cell).541.231.7204 ph(w).541.737.4487 "The time has come to reaffirm our enduring spirit; to choose our better history; to carry forward that precious gift, that noble idea, passed on from generation to generation...that all are equal, all are free and all deserve a chance to pursue their full measure of happiness." -B. Obama -- Rachael D. Mueller Oregon State University (COAS), and Earth & Space Research http://oregonstate.edu/~muellerr/ ph(cell).541.231.7204 ph(w).541.737.4487 "The time has come to reaffirm our enduring spirit; to choose our better history; to carry forward that precious gift, that noble idea, passed on from generation to generation...that all are equal, all are free and all deserve a chance to pursue their full measure of happiness." -B. Obama |