On Thu, 2007-10-11 at 14:10 -0400, Kevin J. Cummings wrote: > What are the permissions on ./configure, I'm betting it doesn't > include > "x". You can't execute with out "x". You *can* however, read it as > input to the shell if it has "r" permissions. Do you think I shouldn't check it before giving you all this trouble? OK, here it is again. The result all the three executables. ls -l configure version.sh codec-cfg -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 22301 2007-10-11 13:16 codec-cfg -rwxrwxr-x 1 1003 1003 234082 2007-10-08 01:19 configure -rwxrwxr-x 1 1003 1003 145 2007-10-08 01:19 version.sh And the peculiar thing is that 'sh ./configure' is running it, but not ./configure. And after ./configure is run, the config.log is giving very correct results. -- das