Hi, hoping someone can help me.
I'm getting this error, or ones very similar (meaning recursive problems) whenever I try to compile a program from source.

I thought previously it might have been the individual piece of software, so I deleted it, but it's doing it again when trying to compile LinNeighborhood.

The error is as follows:
browsewrap.c: In function `browse_path_done':
browsewrap.c:955: `group_name' undeclared (first use in this function)
browsewrap.c:955: `machine_name' undeclared (first use in this function)
browsewrap.c:955: `share_name' undeclared (first use in this function)
browsewrap.c:955: `path_name' undeclared (first use in this function)
browsewrap.c:955: `files' undeclared (first use in this function)
make[2]: *** [browsewrap.o] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/jadewolf/LinNeighborhood-0.6.5/src'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/jadewolf/LinNeighborhood-0.6.5'
make: *** [all-recursive-am] Error 2

I am currently running Redhat 9 - gnome desktop.
If anyone knows where I should look to find a solution for this problem, please let me know, as I'm fairly new to linux.

If any other info is needed, please let me know and I'll reply asap.

First make sure that the package you are compiling is not a beta, testing or RC release but a stable release. After that use the configure script to to create the make files. the configure script takes ceratin options telling it where your include and lib files are. So you configure by ./configure <options>

Since you are on RedHat 9, the options you have to pass are

'--prefix=/usr' '--exec-prefix=/usr' '--sysconfdir=/etc' '--datadir=/usr/share' '--includedir=/usr/include' '--libdir=/usr/lib' '--libexecdir=/usr/libexec' '--localstatedir=/var' '--sharedstatedir=/usr/com' '--mandir=/usr/share/man' '--infodir=/usr/share/info'

After you have run configure you run make and that will compile your software correctly. Hope that helps

I've run ./configure already, and it creates the makefiles not a problem, no errors there. it's only on the make that things are going wrong and it's in a number of different sources

What is the software you are compiling and what does it do? If you can find the RPMs for it, that would be better than compiling from source.

If you want to browse your network neighbourhood an you have nautilus installed, you can do it by typing "smb://" in the address bar of nautilus

its ok, found the problem. The error was higher up in the make output... Glib devel wasn't installed :/

Anyway, now I gotta try and find a binary package for glib/glib-devel