Compiling Just Doesn't Wann Work
 

I am having trouble compiling games, the games I am trying are games that use the SDL stuff. Well I can't compile the SDL stuff either, it lets me ./configure but not make here is what I get when I try

cd . && aclocal
cd . && automake --foreign --include-deps Makefile
Makefile.am: required file `./depcomp' not found
make: *** [Makefile.in] Error 1

beats me I have no clue, compiling has never worked for me before on Mandrake either, I now run Slackware 9.1

I use Mandrake 9.1 and can't compile anything.

Maybe you can look for an RPM? Those never fail me!

are you root? make shouldnt bomb out if your not root but make install will if your having problems try su-ing and then compiling

yes I am root it still doesnt work

Yea. I know what you mean. I am on Red Hat 9 and everytime i compile something such as Wine or any other program, i get errors.

Try this command:

sh ./autogen.sh

verify that u have all required dependencies to compile stuff

Yeah I'm pretty sure I am missing dependencies, I don't understand those though.