terminal Compiling

[Trik]

Hi
earlier i asked about ./configure command the command y ou have to do first to complile things but when i try to even do the command it either says i dont have permission or its not a command,so i tried doing it in root and its still said permissin denied so can anyone help me around this problem
thanks
Andy

 

[endian]

try setting its executable bit:

sudo chmod +x configure

 

[Trik]

Didnt work anything else i can do
or can i skip the whole config thing when compiling

 

[offets]

You can't skip the ./configure, because it creates the Makefile.in, which is needed by make. Because it's native compiling, make needs system specific data and paths.