RE: configure: error: can not find sources

["Srivatsan Raghavan" <srivatsan_raghavan at excite dot com>]

 --- On Sun 04/01, Dave Korn < dave.korn@artimi.com > wrote:
From: Dave Korn [mailto: dave.korn@artimi.com]
To: srivatsan_raghavan@excite.com, binutils@sourceware.org
Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2007 15:29:30 +0100
Subject: RE: configure: error: can not find sources

On 01 April 2007 15:02, Srivatsan Raghavan wrote:<br><br>>   Hi,    I recently downloaded binutils-2.15.tar.gz from<br>> sources.redhat.com/binutils web site. I want to build binutils for arm on a<br>> cygwin platform running on Windows-XP.   I went through the initial steps<br>> as follows  mkdir -p /tmp/build/binutils cd /tmp/build/binutils<br>> /src/binutils-2.15/configure --target=arm-elf --prefix=/tools -v 2>&1  The<br>> configure command gives me the following error message  configure: error:<br>> can not find sources in  or ..  Can anyone please let me know as to what I<br>> am missing here?  Thnx Srivatsan       <br><br><br>  Strange, I can't reproduce this, I used the exact same configure command and<br>paths and it all worked fine.  Is it possible something went wrong when you<br>unpacked the source tarball?  One common problem is using winzip or a similar<br>windows gui unpacking program that doesn't handle things like cygwin symlinks<br>correctly; make sure to use 
the cygwin tar command (e.g. "tar xvjf<br>binutils-2.15.tar.bz2").<br><br>  BTW binutils is up to version 2.17 now, unless you specially need the old<br>version you might want to use the most recent.<br><br><br>    cheers,<br>      DaveK<br>-- <br>Can't think of a witty .sigline today....<br><br>


Hi Dave,
      I first started with 2.17. The configure command for 2.17 release just failed to move ahead. The configure command never completed & I had to ctrl-c the command.

I then used 2.13 got the configure error message about sources. Then I moved to 2.15 & finally gave up.

For tar-ring all my releases I used cygwin's tar -xvjf command. 

Still no success. Can you please check your enviroment to see if you have any extra variables set, $path etc?

BTW: I did google this error message & someone has hit upon this error when working with CVS sources. 

Thnx
Srivatsan


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