I am getting a number of error when I run the make utility. I am trying to install the rdesktop client. It needed openssl installed first. I did that but I'm not sure if it installed as it should as I am new to Linux and don't know what "error" are legit messages and which ones are not. Anyway, when I do the ./configure for the rdesktop install, it runs with a number of warnings. When I run the make utility, it simply gives errors. It looks like the errors are undeclared variables.

Thanks for any help,
Marty

What distro are you using? and what are the errors displayed from ./configure?

I am running Debian 3.1.

Here is the output when I do a ./configure:

checking for gcc... gcc
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of executables...
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... none needed
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E
checking for egrep... grep -E
checking for ANSI C header files... yes
checking whether byte ordering is bigendian... no
checking for X... no
checking for library containing socket... none required
checking for library containing inet_aton... none required
checking for sys/types.h... yes
checking for sys/stat.h... yes
checking for stdlib.h... yes
checking for string.h... yes
checking for memory.h... yes
checking for strings.h... yes
checking for inttypes.h... yes
checking for stdint.h... yes
checking for unistd.h... yes
checking sys/select.h usability... yes
checking sys/select.h presence... yes
checking for sys/select.h... yes
checking sys/modem.h usability... no
checking sys/modem.h presence... no
checking for sys/modem.h... no
checking sys/filio.h usability... no
checking sys/filio.h presence... no
checking for sys/filio.h... no
checking sys/strtio.h usability... no
checking sys/strtio.h presence... no
checking for sys/strtio.h... no
checking locale.h usability... yes
checking locale.h presence... yes
checking for locale.h... yes
checking langinfo.h usability... yes
checking langinfo.h presence... yes
checking for langinfo.h... yes
checking for strip... strip
checking for OpenSSL directory... /usr/local
checking if architecture needs alignment... yes
checking ao/ao.h usability... no
checking ao/ao.h presence... no
checking for ao/ao.h... no
checking sys/soundcard.h usability... yes
checking sys/soundcard.h presence... yes
checking for sys/soundcard.h... yes
checking dmedia/audio.h usability... no
checking dmedia/audio.h presence... no
checking for dmedia/audio.h... no
checking sys/audioio.h usability... no
checking sys/audioio.h presence... no
checking for sys/audioio.h... no
checking for dirent.h that defines DIR... yes
checking for library containing opendir... none required
checking for dirfd... yes
checking whether dirfd is declared... yes
checking whether dirfd is a macro... no
checking iconv.h usability... yes
checking iconv.h presence... yes
checking for iconv.h... yes
checking for iconv... yes
checking for iconv declaration...
extern size_t iconv (iconv_t cd, char * *inbuf, size_t *inbytesleft, char * *outbuf, size_t *outbytesleft);
checking for socklen_t... yes
checking sys/vfs.h usability... yes
checking sys/vfs.h presence... yes
checking for sys/vfs.h... yes
checking sys/statvfs.h usability... yes
checking sys/statvfs.h presence... yes
checking for sys/statvfs.h... yes
checking sys/statfs.h usability... yes
checking sys/statfs.h presence... yes
checking for sys/statfs.h... yes
checking sys/param.h usability... yes
checking sys/param.h presence... yes
checking for sys/param.h... yes
checking for sys/mount.h... yes
configure: checking how to get filesystem space usage...
checking statvfs64 function (SVR4)... no
checking statvfs function (SVR4)... yes
checking for struct statfs.f_namemax... no
checking for struct statvfs.f_namemax... yes
checking for struct statfs.f_namelen... yes
checking for struct statvfs.f_namelen... no
checking for special C compiler options needed for large files... no
checking for _FILE_OFFSET_BITS value needed for large files... 64
checking for _LARGE_FILES value needed for large files... no
checking mntent.h usability... yes
checking mntent.h presence... yes
checking for mntent.h... yes
checking for setmntent... yes
checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
configure: creating ./config.status
config.status: creating Makefile

what does make give you?

You might also try using apt-get to install rdesktop.

I'm having some difficulty piping the errors to a log file when I run the make file...

Marty

I was able to get the rdestkop installed via the apt-get. Thanks a million for the help...

Marty

Well atleast you got it working. still seems weird but no worries.