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[outlier_lynn]

I've been trying, off and on, for a week to get various utilities to compile from source. I've gotten a pretty consistent error that I've worked around, but I've still been unable to get any configure script to complete without error. I went back to a script I know worked and even it failed.

The error I worked around was this: bad interpreter: Permission denied
The she-bang line just failed. If I ran "sh configure" it would work only to have configure fail later in the run.

I wrote a little test:
#!/bin/sh
echo "This worked"
exit

It failed with the same error.

THEN I remembered. When I rebuilt the hard drive partitions on this machine a few months ago, I made a separate file system for the development stuff. I ran mount.

Yep. There was my development file system mounted "noexec." I have no idea why that was so. I changed the fstab entry to explicitly allow exec and rw. Now all is fine.

Well all is back to normal. I'm still compiling other people's code that spits a mile of warnings at me about signedness and ptr type problems. Doesn't anyone try to write clean code?

Anyway, I feel like an idiot.

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[idiva.livejournal.com]

>Doesn't anyone try to write clean code?>>>>

I so hear your pain.

I've been poking through other people's code all summer --- and I bemoan their lack of self-documentation.