gAIM, doesn't want to make...

nutnut · 02-21-2005, 02:34 PM

Hi,

Just downloaded the .tar.gz from the gAIM website, un gzip/tar'd it and opened the installation instructions - they instructed me to run the following commands (in order):

1) ./configure
2) make
3) make install

So, I ran configure which ran fine with no errors. However when I ran make, I got the following message:

[root@localhost gaim-1.1.3]# make
make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop.

Now, I'm just following the instructions so forgive me if I've made an obvious mistake (I am the ultranewb

), but I'd appreciate a little guidance ^^!

Thanks in advance,
James

acid_kewpie · 02-21-2005, 03:09 PM

sounds like ./configure didn't actually run fine at all... what were the last dozen lines or so?

david_ross · 02-21-2005, 03:09 PM

Can you post the output from ./configure - it probably failed somwhere.

nutnut · 02-21-2005, 04:25 PM

Hi,

Yeah lol, I missed the error which was slapping me in the fact right at the end of the configure, it was the absence of GLIB. In order to resolve this, I downloaded GLIB version 2.6 and installed as directed by the instructions. However, when once again attempting to configure GAIM, I was presented again with the same error:

Code:

checking for GLIB - version >= 2.0.0... no
*** Could not run GLIB test program, checking why...
*** The test program failed to compile or link. See the file config.log for the
*** exact error that occurred. This usually means GLIB is incorrectly installed.configure: error:
*** GLib 2.0 is required to build Gaim; please make sure you have the GLib
*** development headers installed. The latest version of GLib is
*** always available at http://www.gtk.org/.
[root@localhost gaim-1.1.3]#

Obviously this is somewhat annoying, and I'd appreciate any input

?

Thanks,
James

Komakino · 02-21-2005, 04:28 PM

You'll need glib, atk, pango and gtk+ from the same site. Latest versions of each.
Install using:

Code:

./configure --prefix=/usr 
make
make install (as root)

Build them in the order above.

ironwalker · 02-21-2005, 05:00 PM

Doesnt gaim come with redhat.....yum gaim???

reddazz · 02-22-2005, 03:01 AM

You are probably missing the development packages of glib. I think there are rpms for Redhat/Fedora on the gaim website as well.

nutnut · 02-22-2005, 03:18 PM

Hi,

Right, I've managed to make GLIB and ATK and I'm now onto Pango - another error!

For this one, I've no even remote clue on how to solve it so any guidance would be appreciated

...

checking for X... no
configure: WARNING: X development libraries not found
checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config
checking for fontconfig >= 1.0.1... Package fontconfig was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `fontconfig.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
No package 'fontconfig' found
configure: WARNING: No fontconfig found, skipping tests for FreeType and Xft
configure: error: *** Didn't find any of FreeType, X11, or Win32.
*** Must have at least one backend to build Pango.

Thanks,
James.

nutnut · 02-22-2005, 04:19 PM

No one

!?