Re: [Boost-users] ./configure: Permission denied (Mac)

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] ./configure: Permission denied (Mac)
From: Ian McCulloch (ianmcc_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-11-30 23:26:45

framebuffer wrote:

> 
> Hi!
> 
> I am trying to install boost 1.37 on Leopard 10.5.2.
> 
> I have put boost_1_37_0 in my home directory and I have successfully
> compiled and executed a header only application.
> 
> I am following the following instructions:
> 
>
http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_37_0/more/getting_started/unix-variants.html
> 
> When I try to run ./configure --help I get a permission denied error.
> 
> -bash: ./configure: Permission denied
> 
> When I say sudo: ./configure
> 
> sudo: ./configure: command not found
> 
> The configure file is certainly there.
> 
> I have even tried to make it readable and writable by everyone.

And executable too?  That is a separate permission.

HTH,
Ian McCulloch