Problems installing pentaval-RHx-2.1.10

[inya]

Hi,
i'm new to this forum, so am kind of excited since this is my first post.
i've been having problems when i try to install pentaval-RHx-2.1.10 on RedHat Linux 8.0.
When compiling & i type the './configure' command, i get the error

/pentaval-Rhx-2.1.10/config/missing: Unknown '--run' option.
configure:WARNING: 'missing' script too old or missing

So i cat the missing file and this wat i got:

[root@localhost config]# cat missing
#! /bin/sh
# Common stub for a few missing GNU programs while installing.
# Copyright (C) 1996, 1997 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
# Franc,ois Pinard <pinard@iro.umontreal.ca>, 1996.

# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
# the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
# any later version.

# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
# GNU General Public License for more details.

# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
# along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
# Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA
# 02111-1307, USA.

if test $# -eq 0; then
echo 1>&2 "Try \`$0 --help' for more information"
exit 1
fi

case "$1" in

-h|--h|--he|--hel|--help)
echo "\
$0 [OPTION]... PROGRAM [ARGUMENT]...

Handle \`PROGRAM [ARGUMENT]...' for when PROGRAM is missing, or return an
error status if there is no known handling for PROGRAM.

Options:
-h, --help display this help and exit
-v, --version output version information and exit

Supported PROGRAM values:
aclocal touch file \`aclocal.m4'
autoconf touch file \`configure'
autoheader touch file \`config.h.in'
automake touch all \`Makefile.in' files
bison create \`y.tab.[ch]', if possible, from existing .[ch]
flex create \`lex.yy.c', if possible, from existing .c
lex create \`lex.yy.c', if possible, from existing .c
makeinfo touch the output file
yacc create \`y.tab.[ch]', if possible, from existing .[ch]"
;;

-v|--v|--ve|--ver|--vers|--versi|--versio|--version)
echo "missing - GNU libit 0.0"
;;

-*)
echo 1>&2 "$0: Unknown \`$1' option"
echo 1>&2 "Try \`$0 --help' for more information"
exit 1
;;

aclocal)
echo 1>&2 "\
WARNING: \`$1' is missing on your system. You should only need it if
you modified \`acinclude.m4' or \`configure.in'. You might want
to install the \`Automake' and \`Perl' packages. Grab them from
any GNU archive site."
touch aclocal.m4
;;

autoconf)
echo 1>&2 "\
WARNING: \`$1' is missing on your system. You should only need it if
you modified \`configure.in'. You might want to install the
\`Autoconf' and \`GNU m4' packages. Grab them from any GNU
archive site."
touch configure
;;

autoheader)
echo 1>&2 "\
WARNING: \`$1' is missing on your system. You should only need it if
you modified \`acconfig.h' or \`configure.in'. You might want
to install the \`Autoconf' and \`GNU m4' packages. Grab them
from any GNU archive site."
files=`sed -n 's/^[ ]*A[CM]_CONFIG_HEADER(\([^)]*\)).*/\1/p' configure.in`
test -z "$files" && files="config.h"
touch_files=
for f in $files; do
case "$f" in
*:*) touch_files="$touch_files "`echo "$f" |
sed -e 's/^[^:]*://' -e 's/:.*//'`;;
*) touch_files="$touch_files $f.in";;
esac
done
touch $touch_files
;;

automake)
echo 1>&2 "\
WARNING: \`$1' is missing on your system. You should only need it if
you modified \`Makefile.am', \`acinclude.m4' or \`configure.in'.
You might want to install the \`Automake' and \`Perl' packages.
Grab them from any GNU archive site."
find . -type f -name Makefile.am -print |
sed 's/\.am$/.in/' |
while read f; do touch "$f"; done
;;

bison|yacc)
echo 1>&2 "\
WARNING: \`$1' is missing on your system. You should only need it if
you modified a \`.y' file. You may need the \`Bison' package
in order for those modifications to take effect. You can get
\`Bison' from any GNU archive site."
rm -f y.tab.c y.tab.h
if [ $# -ne 1 ]; then
eval LASTARG="\${$#}"
case "$LASTARG" in
*.y)
SRCFILE=`echo "$LASTARG" | sed 's/y$/c/'`
if [ -f "$SRCFILE" ]; then
cp "$SRCFILE" y.tab.c
fi
SRCFILE=`echo "$LASTARG" | sed 's/y$/h/'`
if [ -f "$SRCFILE" ]; then
cp "$SRCFILE" y.tab.h
fi
;;
esac
fi
if [ ! -f y.tab.h ]; then
echo >y.tab.h
fi
if [ ! -f y.tab.c ]; then
echo 'main() { return 0; }' >y.tab.c
fi
;;

lex|flex)
echo 1>&2 "\
WARNING: \`$1' is missing on your system. You should only need it if
you modified a \`.l' file. You may need the \`Flex' package
in order for those modifications to take effect. You can get
\`Flex' from any GNU archive site."
rm -f lex.yy.c
if [ $# -ne 1 ]; then
eval LASTARG="\${$#}"
case "$LASTARG" in
*.l)
SRCFILE=`echo "$LASTARG" | sed 's/l$/c/'`
if [ -f "$SRCFILE" ]; then
cp "$SRCFILE" lex.yy.c
fi
;;
esac
fi
if [ ! -f lex.yy.c ]; then
echo 'main() { return 0; }' >lex.yy.c
fi
;;

makeinfo)
echo 1>&2 "\
WARNING: \`$1' is missing on your system. You should only need it if
you modified a \`.texi' or \`.texinfo' file, or any other file
indirectly affecting the aspect of the manual. The spurious
call might also be the consequence of using a buggy \`make' (AIX,
DU, IRIX). You might want to install the \`Texinfo' package or
the \`GNU make' package. Grab either from any GNU archive site."
file=`echo "$*" | sed -n 's/.*-o \([^ ]*\).*/\1/p'`
if test -z "$file"; then
file=`echo "$*" | sed 's/.* \([^ ]*\) *$/\1/'`
file=`sed -n '/^@setfilename/ { s/.* \([^ ]*\) *$/\1/; p; q; }' $file`
fi
touch $file
;;

*)
echo 1>&2 "\
WARNING: \`$1' is needed, and you do not seem to have it handy on your
system. You might have modified some files without having the
proper tools for further handling them. Check the \`README' file,
it often tells you about the needed prerequirements for installing
this package. You may also peek at any GNU archive site, in case
some other package would contain this missing \`$1' program."
exit 1
;;
esac

exit 0
[root@localhost config]#



AM PRETTY CONFUSED AT THE MOMENT. WHAT'S THIS $1 PROGRAM & HOW CAN I RESOLVE THIS PROBLEM.

THANKS IN ADVANCE.

inya.

[Opnosforatou]

ola,

I'm not familiar with this program but the $1 you are refering to is not a program.
It's script to check if input was parsed to the script.
If you would type : ./configure -h
it will print the helpfile.

I'm unable to find any reference to the --run option in the config/missing file..

What happens if you type make clean and then ./configure
What are the last 5 lines of the output....

[inya]

hi,
thanks for the reply. this is wat i got when i typed make clean & then ./configure:


[root@localhost pentaval-RHx-2.1.10]# make clean
/bin/sh ./config.status --recheck
running /bin/sh ./configure --no-create --no-recursion
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
/pentaval-RHx-2.1.10/config/missing: Unknown `--run' option
Try `/pentaval-RHx-2.1.10/config/missing --help' for more information
configure: WARNING: `missing' script is too old or missing
checking for gawk... gawk
checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... yes
checking for gcc... gcc
checking for C compiler default output... 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 style of include used by make... GNU
checking dependency style of gcc... none
checking whether ln -s works... yes
checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E
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 fcntl.h usability... yes
checking fcntl.h presence... yes
checking for fcntl.h... yes
checking sys/ioctl.h usability... yes
checking sys/ioctl.h presence... yes
checking for sys/ioctl.h... yes
checking sys/time.h usability... yes
checking sys/time.h presence... yes
checking for sys/time.h... yes
checking for unistd.h... (cached) yes
checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... none needed
checking for an ANSI C-conforming const... yes
checking for size_t... yes
checking whether time.h and sys/time.h may both be included... yes
checking whether gcc needs -traditional... no
checking return type of signal handlers... void
checking for gettimeofday... yes
checking for socket... yes
checking for strtol... yes
checking "your running kernel version is"... "2.4.18-14"
checking "/usr/src/linux"... configure: error: " Please check whether the /usr/src/linux is or not! "
make: *** [config.status] Error 1
[root@localhost pentaval-RHx-2.1.10]# ./configure
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
/pentaval-RHx-2.1.10/config/missing: Unknown `--run' option
Try `/pentaval-RHx-2.1.10/config/missing --help' for more information
configure: WARNING: `missing' script is too old or missing
checking for gawk... gawk
checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... yes
checking for gcc... gcc
checking for C compiler default output... 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 style of include used by make... GNU
checking dependency style of gcc... none
checking whether ln -s works... yes
checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E
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 fcntl.h usability... yes
checking fcntl.h presence... yes
checking for fcntl.h... yes
checking sys/ioctl.h usability... yes
checking sys/ioctl.h presence... yes
checking for sys/ioctl.h... yes
checking sys/time.h usability... yes
checking sys/time.h presence... yes
checking for sys/time.h... yes
checking for unistd.h... (cached) yes
checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... none needed
checking for an ANSI C-conforming const... yes
checking for size_t... yes
checking whether time.h and sys/time.h may both be included... yes
checking whether gcc needs -traditional... no
checking return type of signal handlers... void
checking for gettimeofday... yes
checking for socket... yes
checking for strtol... yes
checking "your running kernel version is"... "2.4.18-14"
checking "/usr/src/linux"... configure: error: " Please check whether the /usr/src/linux is or not! "
[root@localhost pentaval-RHx-2.1.10]#

THANKS IN ADVANCE. I REALLY APPRECIATE UR HELP.

inya.

[Opnosforatou]

okies ... here is the problem

checking "/usr/src/linux"... configure: error: " Please check whether the /usr/src/linux is or not! "

go to the directory /usr/src
type ls -lha
And check if you have the linux kernel source directory.
The source code you are compiling expects that your kernel source is located in the /usr/src/linux dir.
And it can't find it.
If you have the kernel source installed create a symbolic link to it using:
ln -s <kernel source dir> linux
This will create a symbolic link (usualy light blue colored) to the kernel source but carries the name linux.
If you start the configure again it should configure properly now.


one other note: Be easy on the CAPS en the Bold.
Some ppl don't like to read it as it is a sort of yelling.. (Caps that is.)

[inya]

thanks a million. it worked.
will avoid the bold & caps next time.
hope ure always around to help me.

maybe we could hook up on msn if its not too much trouble.

cheers,
inya.

[Opnosforatou]

You're welcome.
It's allways a pleasure to help others.