Ive been playing around with lin and installed me first package for gtk-gnutella 0.92.1c

did

make install /root/Des....

was fine

wanted to install another ap using diff shit, ulstimatly got this

bash-2.05b# make install /root/Desktop/mldonkey-2.5.9/
cd /root/Desktop/gtk-gnutella-0.92.1c && /root/Desktop/gtk-gnutella-0.92.1c/missing automake-1.4 --gnu Makefile
/bin/sh: line 1: cd: /root/Desktop/gtk-gnutella-0.92.1c: No such file or directory
make: *** [/root/Desktop/gtk-gnutella-0.92.1c/Makefile.in] Error 1

i said wtf???? why would it even be looking at gnutella make shit???

after pissing about for the next 5 min i finaly figured at some point it compiled or swaped my default config.h file in meh root dir. Is this normal? Did i fuck something up or is that gnutella client a twit?

finaly located the most probible source of all my problems in the config.h file

/* Define which directory should be used for package data. */
#define PACKAGE_DATA_DIR "/usr/local/share/gtk-gnutella"

I started shouting @ screen at this point

can somebody please tell me the default package data dir and if i need to do something with the config.h file after i replace this line or just save it? Or am i completly off and just fucking up in general, if so please correct meh newbness.

it appears you do not have the automake package nor the directory to cd to.
are you supposed to have another tgz file with this?
look:
bash-2.05b# make install /root/Desktop/mldonkey-2.5.9/
cd /root/Desktop/gtk-gnutella-0.92.1c && /root/Desktop/gtk-gnutella-0.92.1c/missing automake-1.4 --gnu Makefile
/bin/sh: line 1: cd: /root/Desktop/gtk-gnutella-0.92.1c: No such file or directory
make: *** [/root/Desktop/gtk-gnutella-0.92.1c/Makefile.in] Error 1

oh yeah by the way you did already do a ./configure right?

I have not installed these packages from source, but normally there is a file called configure. I am guessing you want to choose where the package is installed to and I will explain how to do it in a sec.
Normally you do something like this:
The make install installs the package to the appropriate directories on your system. For example it may install the executable mldonkey file in /usr/bin or perhaps /usr/local/bin.
If you want to change where it is going to install to you can do this by passing information to the configure:
for information about what you can pass to configure type:
It seems that you are installing packages to you desktop for you root user. Are you running Xwindows from root? If so you should consider running it from a user account and install packages to a different directory.

is the automake package supposed to be in the mldonkeu dir? is that what the make install command does? initiate the automake? if so and i do it for mldonkey why doesnt it just give a general error command but give a command relating to a programs automake that has nothing to do with the program im trying to install. and why is

/* Define which directory should be used for package data. */
#define PACKAGE_DATA_DIR "/usr/local/share/gtk-gnutella"

set to nething gnutella related in my main config.h file?

i must be poorly understanding the nix file tree structure ./confogure --help?
please use that in an example, i know it applys to all but i dont know how it would work in an example, please give any for this type of file.

somebody please tell me...

is it ./configure /root/bleh..

how do you run the configure file?

I just looked at mldonkey source and see that a configure file is there. Example of using configure:
to show options:
./configure --help
to set the directory that it installs the package to
./configure --prefix=/usr/local

so to install mldonkey try:
./configure
make
make install

thank you! thats what i needed, it worked.