Please suggest on below error,

[root@localhost ~]# cd /usr/local/src/mysql-4.1.21
[root@localhost mysql-4.1.21]# pwd
/usr/local/src/mysql-4.1.21
[root@localhost mysql-4.1.21]# date
Mon Jan 21 06:43:18 IST 2013
[root@localhost mysql-4.1.21]# make clean
make: *** No rule to make target `clean'. Stop.
[root@localhost mysql-4.1.21]# make && make install
make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop.
[root@localhost mysql-4.1.21]#


I am unable to installed MySQL through ./configure command.

what is in that directory (ls -l)?
have you tried ./configure already? what was the result?

[root@localhost mysql-4.1.21]# ls -l
total 3072
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3188 Jan 21 05:45 ac_available_languages_fragment
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 60575 Jul 19 2006 acinclude.m4
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 260599 Jul 19 2006 aclocal.m4
drwxrwxrwx 48 root root 4096 Jul 19 2006 bdb
drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 4096 Jul 19 2006 BUILD
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 152439 Jul 19 2006 ChangeLog
drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 4096 Jul 19 2006 client
drwxrwxrwx 4 root root 4096 Jul 19 2006 cmd-line-utils
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 43420 Jul 19 2006 config.guess
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 26916 Jul 19 2006 config.h.in
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 288799 Jan 21 05:49 config.log
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 31743 Jul 19 2006 config.sub
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1266970 Jul 19 2006 configure
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 103919 Jul 19 2006 configure.in
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 19071 Jul 19 2006 COPYING
drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 4096 Jul 19 2006 dbug
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 15936 Jul 19 2006 depcomp
drwxrwxrwx 3 root root 4096 Jul 19 2006 Docs
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5712 Jul 19 2006 EXCEPTIONS-CLIENT
drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 4096 Jul 19 2006 extra
drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 4096 Jul 19 2006 heap
drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 4096 Jul 19 2006 include
drwxrwxrwx 32 root root 4096 Jul 19 2006 innobase
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 9233 Jul 19 2006 install-sh
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 41072 Jul 19 2006 INSTALL-SOURCE
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10643 Jul 19 2006 INSTALL-WIN-SOURCE
drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 4096 Jul 19 2006 isam
drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 4096 Jul 19 2006 libmysql
drwxrwxrwx 3 root root 4096 Jul 19 2006 libmysqld
drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 4096 Jul 19 2006 libmysql_r
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 226362 Jan 21 05:46 libtool
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 99497 Jul 19 2006 ltconfig
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 196440 May 26 2006 ltmain.sh
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4180 Jul 19 2006 Makefile.am
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 28738 Jul 19 2006 Makefile.in
drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 4096 Jul 19 2006 man
drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 4096 Jul 19 2006 merge
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 11014 Jul 19 2006 missing
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3474 Jul 19 2006 mkinstalldirs
drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 4096 Jul 19 2006 myisam
drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 4096 Jul 19 2006 myisammrg
drwxrwxrwx 8 root root 4096 Jul 19 2006 mysql-test
drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 4096 Jul 19 2006 mysys
drwxrwxrwx 8 root root 4096 Jul 19 2006 ndb
drwxrwxrwx 3 root root 4096 Jul 19 2006 netware
drwxrwxrwx 3 root root 4096 Jul 19 2006 os2
drwxrwxrwx 3 root root 4096 Jul 19 2006 pstack
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1380 Jul 19 2006 README
drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 4096 Jul 19 2006 regex
drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 4096 Jul 19 2006 scripts
drwxrwxrwx 4 root root 4096 Jul 19 2006 sql
drwxrwxrwx 5 root root 4096 Jul 19 2006 sql-bench
drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 4096 Jul 19 2006 sql-common
drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 4096 Jul 19 2006 SSL
drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 4096 Jul 19 2006 strings
drwxrwxrwx 3 root root 4096 Jul 19 2006 support-files
drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 4096 Jul 19 2006 tests
drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 4096 Jul 19 2006 tools
drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 4096 Jul 19 2006 vio
drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 4096 Jul 19 2006 zlib
[root@localhost mysql-4.1.21]#

have you tried ./configure already? what was the result?

[root@localhost mysql-4.1.21]#./configure \
--prefix=/usr/local/mysql \
--localstatedir=/usr/local/mysql/data \
--disable-maintainer-mode \
--with-mysqld-user=mysql \
--with-unix-socket-path=/tmp/mysql.sock \
--without-comment \
--without-debug \
--without-bench

o/p: few last line

checking whether signal handlers are of type void... yes
checking for tgetent in -lncurses... no
checking for tgetent in -lcurses... no
checking for tgetent in -ltermcap... no
checking for tgetent in -ltinfo... no
checking for termcap functions library... configure: error: No curses/termcap library found
[root@localhost mysql-4.1.21]#

Which distribution are you using?
The error says that the said libraries are missing and you need to install them.

fixed it by doing: yum -y install ncurses-devel
now "make && make install" work.

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Thanks for following up. Please mark the thread SOLVED.

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Done.