Configure Failed need red hat install help

[Cindy Walsh]

> > ls -l /dev/nu*
> > crw-r--r--   1 root     root       1,   3 May  5  1998 /dev/null
>
> You have to ask your system administrator to make /dev/null
> world-writable.  Otherwise, many programs simply won't work.

Hi,

I went into the "configure" file, and replaced all refs to /dev/null to
/vs5/vs5/my_virtual_host/dev/null as suggested by the hosting company
admin. I got a bit further, but still no success. Looks like there were
some other write permission problems which finally terminated the script
when gcc failed.

I tried using the --prefix and --exec-prefix (setting them to
/vs5/vs5/my_virtual_host) but that did not change the results.

The regular output from configure is below. If you want the sh -v output,
let me know and I will send it to you.

Thanks in advance for any help you can provide.

> ./configure --host='i386-redhat-linux'
> loading cache ./config.cache
> checking host system type... i386-redhat-linux-gnu
> checking target system type... i386-redhat-linux-gnu
> checking build system type... i386-redhat-linux-gnu
> checking for a BSD compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
> checking whether build environment is sane... ./configure: /bin/sleep: Permissio
> n denied
> yes
> checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... ./configure: 134948848: Permission denied
> no
> ./configure: 134948168: Permission denied
> ./configure: 134951760: Permission denied
> checking for working aclocal... found
> checking for working autoconf... found
> checking for working automake... found
> checking for working autoheader... found
> checking for working makeinfo... missing
> checking for mawk... no
> checking for gawk... gawk
> checking which static random module to use... default
> ./configure: 134969600: Permission denied
> checking whether use of /dev/random is requested... yes
> checking whether use of extensions is requested... yes
> checking whether assembler modules are requested... yes
> checking whether memory debugging is requested... no
> checking whether memory guard is requested... no
> checking whether included zlib is requested... no
> checking whether use of capabilities is requested... no
> checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... no
> checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... (cached) no
> checking whether build environment is sane... ./configure: /bin/sleep: Permissio
> n denied
> yes
> checking for working aclocal... found
> checking for working autoconf... found
> checking for working automake... found
> checking for working autoheader... found
> checking for gcc... gcc
> checking whether the C compiler (gcc  ) works... ./configure: 134945048: Permiss
> ion denied
> no
> configure: error: installation or configuration problem: C compiler cannot creat
> e executables.
>