I had a RH73.
Now I moved to a Mdk9.

I'm not a Linux guru of course, so maybe i'm just screwing up something.

But why th hell to compile seems to be quite an impossible thing to me in Mandrake. In RedHat sometime happens to win. Now I'm getting sick of the whole thing.

Is there something I have to install before try to do a 'configure/make/make install' thing'?

I quote a prototype of my installation errors:

[root@localhost kwebget]# make
make all-recursive
make[1]: Entering directory `/compile/kwebget'
Making all in kwebget
make[2]: Entering directory `/compile/kwebget/kwebget'
Making all in wizard
make[3]: Entering directory `/compile/kwebget/kwebget/wizard'
make[3]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
make[3]: Leaving directory `/compile/kwebget/kwebget/wizard'
make[3]: Entering directory `/compile/kwebget/kwebget'
g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -I/usr/lib/qt3/include -I/usr/X11R6/include -DQT_THREAD_SUPPORT -D_REENTRANT -O2 -fno-exceptions -fno-check-new -c main.cpp
In file included from mainconf.h:42,
from kwebget.h:47,
from main.cpp:20:
listenterdialog.h:86:7: warning: no newline at end of file
In file included from kwebget.h:48,
from main.cpp:20:
optconf.h:56:7: warning: no newline at end of file
In file included from kwebget.h:60,
from main.cpp:20:
wizard/kwgwizard.h:91:7: warning: no newline at end of file
main.cpp: In function `int main(int, char**)':
main.cpp:35: `VERSION' undeclared (first use this function)
main.cpp:35: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once for each function it appears in.)
main.cpp:65:2: warning: no newline at end of file
make[3]: *** [main.o] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/compile/kwebget/kwebget'
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/compile/kwebget/kwebget'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/compile/kwebget'
make: *** [all-recursive-am] Error 2

maybe it's the easiest way out to add some newlines to the end of the files the compiler complains about:

optconf.h:56:7: warning: no newline at end of file
listenterdialog.h:
wizard/kwgwizard.h

i guess that should do.good luck
jens

But that is not just a warning??
I mean it seemed to me that was the VERSION thing
the big fellas here?
Am I wrong?

SuperSadSmile

You see, it happens also with quanta, it seems to be
a 'VERSION' problem to me:

...........
make[3]: Leaving directory `/compile/quanta-3.0/quanta/project'
make[3]: Entering directory `/compile/quanta-3.0/quanta'
g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -I/usr/lib/qt3/include -I/usr/X11R6/include -I../quanta/dialogs -I../quanta/tagdialogs -I../quanta/toolbar -DQT_THREAD_SUPPORT -D_REENTRANT -Wnon-virtual-dtor -Wno-long-long -Wundef -Wall -pedantic -W -Wpointer-arith -Wmissing-prototypes -Wwrite-strings -ansi -D_XOPEN_SOURCE=500 -D_BSD_SOURCE -Wcast-align -Wconversion -O2 -fno-exceptions -fno-check-new -c quanta_init.cpp
quanta_init.cpp: In member function `void QuantaApp::initQuanta()':
quanta_init.cpp:167: make[3]: Leaving directory `/compile/quanta-3.0/quanta/project'
make[3]: Entering directory `/compile/quanta-3.0/quanta'
g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -I/usr/lib/qt3/include -I/usr/X11R6/include -I../quanta/dialogs -I../quanta/tagdialogs -I../quanta/toolbar -DQT_THREAD_SUPPORT -D_REENTRANT -Wnon-virtual-dtor -Wno-long-long -Wundef -Wall -pedantic -W -Wpointer-arith -Wmissing-prototypes -Wwrite-strings -ansi -D_XOPEN_SOURCE=500 -D_BSD_SOURCE -Wcast-align -Wconversion -O2 -fno-exceptions -fno-check-new -c quanta_init.cpp
quanta_init.cpp: In member function `void QuantaApp::initQuanta()':
quanta_init.cpp:167: 'VERSION' undeclared (first use this function)
quanta_init.cpp:167: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once for each function it appears in.)
make[3]: *** [quanta_init.o] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/compile/quanta-3.0/quanta'
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/compile/quanta-3.0/quanta'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/compile/quanta-3.0'
make: *** [all-recursive-am] Error 2
undeclared (first use this function)
quanta_init.cpp:167: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once for each function it appears in.)
make[3]: *** [quanta_init.o] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/compile/quanta-3.0/quanta'
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/compile/quanta-3.0/quanta'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/compile/quanta-3.0'
make: *** [all-recursive-am] Error 2

sorry, u're right about the warning - they dont count usually
maybe u can post parts of main.cpp particularly line 35.
seems there's sth wrong with it cause compiler takes "VERSION..." as a function. maybe u can comment that out.
but i hope someone else knows better;-)
cheers, jens