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When i try to install a vlc or any other program on FC2 i can only get past the ./config, after all the config stuff runs i type make, noting hapins. all it says is

make: *** No rule to make target `install'. Stop.

whats wrong.

here's part of the config text]

checking for kernel/scheduler.h... no
checking kernel/OS.h usability... no
checking kernel/OS.h presence... no
checking for kernel/OS.h... no
checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config
checking for hal >= 0.2.97... Package hal was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `hal.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
No package 'hal' found
configure: WARNING: HAL library not found
checking for ntohl in sys/param.h... no
checking if $CC accepts -Wall... yes
checking if $CC accepts -Wconversion... yes
checking if $CC accepts -Wunreachable-code... yes
checking if $CC accepts -Wsign-compare... yes
checking if $CC accepts -pipe... yes
checking if $CC accepts -Os... yes
checking if $CC accepts -O3... yes
checking if $CC accepts -O2... yes
checking if $CC accepts -ffast-math... yes
checking if $CC accepts -funroll-loops... yes
checking if $CC accepts -fomit-frame-pointer... yes
checking if $CC accepts -mdynamic-no-pic... no
checking if $CC accepts -bundle -undefined error -lcc_dynamic... no
checking if $CC accepts -shared... yes
checking for variadic cpp macros... yes
checking __attribute__ ((aligned ())) support... 64
checking __attribute__ ((format ())) support with function pointers... yes
checking for __attribute__((packed))... yes
checking if $CC groks MMX inline assembly... yes
checking if $CC groks MMX EXT inline assembly... yes
checking if $CC groks 3D Now! inline assembly... yes
checking if $CC groks SSE inline assembly... yes
checking if $CC groks AltiVec inline assembly... no
checking if $CC groks AltiVec C extensions... no
checking if linker needs -framework vecLib... no
checking dvdread/dvd_reader.h usability... no
checking dvdread/dvd_reader.h presence... no
checking for dvdread/dvd_reader.h... no
checking for dvdnav-config... no
checking for dvbpsi/dr.h... no
configure: WARNING: cannot find libdvbpsi headers
checking for libcdio >= 0.70... Package libcdio was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `libcdio.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
No package 'libcdio' found
configure: WARNING: libcdio library not found
checking for libcddb >= 0.9.4... Package libcddb was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `libcddb.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
No package 'libcddb' found
configure: WARNING: new enough libcddb not found. CDDB access disabled
checking for cdrom_msf0 in linux/cdrom.h... yes
checking for scsireq in sys/scsiio.h... no
checking for ioc_toc_header in sys/cdio.h... no
checking X11/Xlib.h usability... yes
checking X11/Xlib.h presence... yes
checking for X11/Xlib.h... yes
checking for inet_pton... yes
checking for sockaddr_in6 in netinet/in.h... yes
checking ogg/ogg.h usability... yes
checking ogg/ogg.h presence... yes
checking for ogg/ogg.h... yes
checking for oggpack_read in -logg... yes
checking ebml/EbmlVersion.h usability... no
checking ebml/EbmlVersion.h presence... no
checking for ebml/EbmlVersion.h... no
checking libmodplug/modplug.h usability... no
checking libmodplug/modplug.h presence... no
checking for libmodplug/modplug.h... no
checking id3tag.h usability... no
checking id3tag.h presence... no
checking for id3tag.h... no
checking for ffmpeg-config... no
checking ffmpeg/avcodec.h usability... no
checking ffmpeg/avcodec.h presence... no
checking for ffmpeg/avcodec.h... no
configure: error: Missing header file ffmpeg/avcodec.h.

The problem is that configure can't find the header file avcodec.h. What configure does if it can't find a file it needs, it just exits without creating a Makefile. You need to get that file on your computer. One more thing, what distro are you using?

PS: Just to let you know, if configure is successful in creating Makefile, it'll print something like this:

creating Makefile
creating foo/src/makefile

and so on.

My Distro is Fedora Core 2