less 458

[Tom Wolf_3]

Hello all.

Not sure if this is the appropriate forum.

I'm trying to build less version 458 on an HP-UX 11.31 ia64 server.

I run "configure" and that finishes successfully but I get the following error when I attempt the make.

$ make
        cd .; autoheader; autoconf
autom4te: cannot open configure: Permission denied
*** Error exit code 1

Stop.

The configure file has the appropriate permission and ownership.

We have the "B9007AA   C.11.31.07     HP C/aC++ Developer's Bundle" installed on this server.

I did some google searches for this "autom4te: cannot open configure..." error but didn't find anything that explains how to clear it.

Does anyone have suggestions?

Thanks in advance.

Tom

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[Torsten.]

Try this:

http://hpux.connect.org.uk/hppd/hpux/Gnu/less-458/

[Tom Wolf_3 · Accepted solution]

Thanks for the link but we want to build it ourselves.

Figured out it was a permissions issue.

Executed "chmod -R 755" against the folder where the less tar ball was extracted.

After that, the configure, make, and make install ran fine.

The files had previously been at 555 permissions.

Apparently less 458 requires the owner have read, write and execute permission.

Thanks.