Peter -- What you describe is not a problem particular to Red Hat. It can
affect any attempt to install non-distro-packaged source-code programs into
any distribution. In a way, it represents bad programming of the configure
script ... configure's *job* is to find where the things it needs are
Hi,
Since the dawn of RH5.2 I am struggling to install tgz packed programs. I
succeed only in 1 out 10. Usually when running configure somewhere it is
aborted with various error messages. I am using RH7.3 now and the installation
was made from scratch.
Now with the help of Richard, he traced t
