I downloaded emacs again and unpacked the tar.. now ./config is working fine. But after make install, i saw some problems. i followed the following steps 1) ./configure (worked fine) 2 ) make (compiled fine) 3) make install ( permission denied ..) Permission denied for some files... so i entered as Super User.. and again i executed "make install" but the error is "make: command not found" But i can see the MakeFile there , but why make install is not executed in SU mode.. Regards arun.c On 9/1/06, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > > Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2006 14:34:43 +0530 > > From: "Arun kumar" > > > > I downloaded the emacs-21.4, untared it nad tried to configure by > using $ > > ./configure.But i got the below error"*configure: error: can not find > > sources in . or .." * > > . Plz let me know about it .. > > It looks for the file src/lisp.h. Do you have it? If not, something > went wrong during unpacking. > > If the file src/lisp.h does exist, try this command instead: > > /path/to/emacs-dir/configure --srcdir=/path/to/emacs-dir > > where /path/to/emacs-dir is the absolute file name of the directory > created by unpacking the Emacs distribution. > > If that doesn't work either, post here the contents of the file > config.log. > > > _______________________________________________ > help-gnu-emacs mailing list > help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gnu-emacs >