You don't seem to have 'make' or 'gmake' in your PATH

I run Debian Etch and now I try to compile KDE4, but first i have to compile a Qt version >= 4.3.

When I try to run the configure script I receive the error message in the title. 'make' is installed, it works from bash and sh and 'which' finds it.
Also g++ and a lot of development libraries are installed (the error message is about make anyway).

From my .bashrc file the only uncommented lines are:

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test -s ~/.alias && . ~/.alias || true 
 
PATH=/space/kde4/qt4-compiled:$PATH 
export PATH 
MAKE=/usr/bin/make:$MAKE 
export MAKE 
 
# This line was appended by KDE 
# Make sure our customised gtkrc file is loaded. 
export GTK2_RC_FILES=$HOME/.gtkrc-2.0

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Another issue is that the script does not run unless called as 'sh ./configure', if I run it from bash simply '.configure' it says:

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bash: ./configure: /bin/sh: bad interpreter: Permission denied

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maybe your user does not have enough rights.
try running the commands you posted as root.

btw, you also have to export QTDIR/ is /space/.../qt4-compiled your qt dir?

regards

Thank you, things started to move.
Indeed, the QTDIR was need.
The errors about sh came from the way the /space partition was mounted. Adding exec in its option list solved that.
An also I had to remove MAKE export (which I put there because I desperate to have this compile :) ).

Now fingers crossed for make and make install.

Thank you again.

Hi,

I got same error prompt

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You don't seem to have 'make' or 'gmake' in your PATH
Cannot proceed

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I'm using Solaris10, Qt4

when I run
./configure

I was set PATH point to /usr/qt-X11-opensource-src-4.3.1/bin on /etc/.login

under /usr/qt-X11-opensource-src-4.3.1/bin only contain 2 file findtr and syncqt

I try to find make and found

/usr/ccs/bin/make
/usr/share/lib/make
/usr/xpg4/bin/make


How to solve this problem.

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Originally Posted by apip

I was set PATH point to /usr/qt-X11-opensource-src-4.3.1/bin on /etc/.login

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What does "echo $PATH" output?

I have the same error, as user and as root.
And its not my first Qt installation...
gmake and make both are in PATH.
Here is my console session:

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> su
Password:
> ./configure -prefix /usr/local/Trolltech/Qt-4.3.3

This is the Qt/X11 Open Source Edition.

You don't seem to have 'make' or 'gmake' in your PATH.
Cannot proceed.
> echo $PATH
/home/archimed/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/opt/gnome/bin:/opt/kde3/bin:/usr/lib/jvm/jre/bin:/usr/lib/mit/bin:/usr/lib/mit/sbin:/usr/lib/qt3/bin
>which make
/usr/bin/make
> which gmake
/usr/bin/gmake

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Any idea?

turns out it was a corupt tar ball.
So others who might get this error, and your PATH indeed does include gmake/make, try another tar ball!!

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Originally Posted by high_flyer

turns out it was a corupt tar ball.
So others who might get this error, and your PATH indeed does include gmake/make, try another tar ball!!

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root@admin-laptop:/home/sonnh/qt-everywhere-opensource-src-4.7.0# echo $PATH
/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games

what is the "tar bar" ?

It not the problem of make or gmake, nor PATH, Just because you unzip the tarball without -a option.
so, to solve this problem, just use 'unzip -a *.zip', it will be fine.