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Re: problems building GraphThing on Red Hat 7.3



On Wed, 28 Jan 2004, Lia Adams wrote:

> On my newly-installed Red Hat 7.3 system,
> I can't even get the configure script to run.
> >From what I can tell, it's due to some
> incompatibility between the bash upgrades
> in 7.3 and earlier version.  It constantly
> reports unknown commands, usually about white
> space!

Is that right? That's very strange. What version of bash are you using
("bash --version"), and what kind of output _do_ you get (the error
messages can be useful)?

> I suspect there is magic I could put in a dot
> file to make it all run smoothly, especially
> if Dave S can run the script with no trouble
> on Red Hat 7.3.

No magic for me - if you still have trouble, try running 'autoconf'
(in the directory containing configure.in), and see if that helps.


Dave.

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