Configure Failed need red hat install help

[Florian Weimer]

Cindy Walsh <cwalsh@massed.net> writes:

> "I think the problem is "terminology".  You need to ensure your program is
> using the following
> path to dev/null:
> 
> /vs5/vs5/my_virtual_host_name/dev/null/
> 
> Not just /dev/null.

This is just crap.  UNIX-like operation systems must provide /dev/null
with the usual semantics, cf. The Single UNIX Specification, Version 2:

|    The following files exist on conforming systems and are both
|    readable and writable.
|
|  /dev/null
|         An infinite data source and data sink. Data written to
|         /dev/null is discarded. Reads from /dev/null always return
|         end-of-file (EOF).

You can't expect that compiling software on such a broken system will
work.  If I were you, I'd be happy if anything runs on this machine at
all.