configure: error: cannot find install-sh or install.sh in config "."/config

Hi,

Your question is rather difficult to understand. If I get it properly, you are trying to compile by yourself a software named "unisim". You have downloaded the source, and you have typed "./configure" in a terminal; that's how you got this error message. Am I right?

Perhaps someone knows this "unisim" software and can provide you more information, but as far as I can tell, the "install.sh" script, if necessary, should be included in the archive you got from the software website.

Autotools are necessary to make a source tarball, i.e. to create the ./configure, ./install.sh etc scripts. It is rather difficult to do it by yourself, and it is probably impossible if you don't know the software very well. That's why the developers generally generate these scripts and include them in the archive you can download. I am not sure it is a good practice to let the users running autotools; fixing the issues (e.g. missing libraries) occurring during the compilation process is already not trivial, and asking everyone to generate the scripts is unnecessary, in my opinion. If I am right, you should try to contact the organism from which you got this software.

PS: you can post you question in your native language if you are uncomfortable in English, some people may answer it more efficiently.

Hi,
Thank you very much for your reply, actually it's my fault i didn't explain my problem well i am new in questions and forms.
As i can see you got exactly what i want but the "unisim" software as i saw expect the install-sh or install.sh to be in my machine as for gcc where i checked almost every thing on its site.

thank you

(if you want to try by yourself, just run ./autogen.sh before the ./configure step).

hi ,
Thank you a lot i figured out how to solve it i installed autogen then it worked without errors
thank you again