A problem with 'make'...

abdo88 · 07-05-2006, 12:03 PM

Hey,

I got some programs from sourceforge.. as .tar.gz and when I was installing them I did the following:

1- tar xvzf file.tar.gz which worked fine...
2- ./configure which worked fine too...
3- make

Then it says the following (with make, make install, make all...)

make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop.

Note: I was logged as root... and the folder has three files :

Makefile.in
Makefile.am
Makefile.mingw

Any help guys...

Thanks

Nylex · 07-05-2006, 12:05 PM

What was the output of the configure script? Usually a makefile isn't generated when there's something wrong (e.g. missing library or compiler) and configure tells you as much. What are you trying to install anyway?

abdo88 · 07-05-2006, 02:04 PM

Actually yeah the ./configure failed... it says:

GLib 2.0

How do I get that on Mepis

Nylex · 07-05-2006, 02:09 PM

Mepis is based on Debian, so you should be able to do something like "apt-cache search glib" to search for packages with glib in the name (presumably, I don't use Debian so can't say for sure) and the install the relevant package(s) with "apt-get install package".

Edit: I'm guessing you don't have GNOME installed then? If you did, you'd definitely have GLib.

abdo88 · 07-05-2006, 02:56 PM

I tried to install it by apt-get and by package manger and it says that I already have the latest version!

Daws · 07-05-2006, 03:50 PM

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I tried to install it by apt-get and by package manger and it says that I already have the latest version!

I just had a look at apt-cache, There are 2 packages libglib1.2-dev and libglib2.0-dev. Just check you have the 2.0 packages installed.

abdo88 · 07-05-2006, 04:12 PM

It is installed...

Daws · 07-05-2006, 07:26 PM

OK, does the config.log file say why glib failed? If it simply could not find it, run ./configure --help. Look for an option to specify where to look for glib (maybe --with-glib=GLIBPREFIX or something). If it is another error then post it and maybe someone will know the answer.