./configure not working
 

Hi,

Whenever I try to run ./configure to prepare to install an application, I receive these messages:

loading cache ./config.cache
checking for a BSD compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... yes
checking for working aclocal... missing
checking for working autoconf... missing
checking for working automake... missing
checking for working autoheader... missing
checking for working makeinfo... missing
checking for gnome-config... no
checking for gnomeConf.sh file in /usr/local/lib... not found
configure: error: Could not find the gnomeConf.sh file that is generated by gnome-libs install

That last message(in bold) seems to be the problem.

Can anyone help?

you do not have the gnome-devel package installedthe one on my system is called "libgnome32-devel"

That's not the only problem! If you look at the output it gives a lot of missing development packages. I think you need to install these things first.

You need to install the autoconf package, which you should be
able to get from your installation CD, or from http://www.gnu.org

well you don't *NEED* autoconf et al all the time, but they are prety useful for some application configs

No, but you don't NEED Makefiles either. To accomplish what he
is apparently trying to accomplish, he would be better off with
autoconf (et al.). ./configure is pretty dependent on autoconf for a
lot of packages, and many packages require autoconf in order to
build a Makefile. ;)
However, you were right in your first post, the error message
means he needs to install the gnome-devel package before he
can get on to the other errors. . .
(Does Starman imply male? I'm assuming so ;)