[just a note to those who respond - i'm a newb, so feel free to be explicit. even if you're not, i'll look up definitions. thanks!]

hi, i just downloaded xkeycaps - and it doesn't use the typical compiling method "./configure; make; make install" that I am accustomed to. The README instructions provided with the xkeycaps.tar.gz file instructed me to use "xmkmf ; make ; make install ; make install.man".

so, i opened my console, switched to the directory i had extracted the files, and ran "xmkmf".



then i read somewhere

[just a note to those who respond - i'm a newb, so feel free to be explicit. even if you're not, i'll look up definitions. thanks!]

hi, i just downloaded xkeycaps - and it doesn't use the typical compiling method "./configure; make; make install" that I am accustomed to. The README instructions provided with the xkeycaps.tar.gz file instructed me to use "xmkmf ; make ; make install ; make install.man".

so, i opened my console, switched to the directory i had extracted the files, and ran "xmkmf".

$ xmkmf
imake -DUseInstalled -I/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/config

then i googled and found that i needed to add an -a argument afterwards.

$ xmkmf -a
mv -f Makefile Makefile.bak
imake -DUseInstalled -I/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/config
make Makefiles
make: Nothing to be done for `Makefiles'.
make includes
make: Nothing to be done for `includes'.
make depend
gccmakedep -- -I./kbds -I/usr/X11R6/include -Dlinux -D__i386__ -D_POSIX_C_SOURCE=199309L -D_POSIX_SOURCE -D_XOPEN_SOURCE -D_BSD_SOURCE -D_SVID_SOURCE -DFUNCPROTO=15 -DNARROWPROTO -- ./xkeycaps.c ./KbdWidget.c ./KeyWidget.c ./info.c ./actions.c ./commands.c ./guess.c ./all-kbds.c ./sunOS.c ./hpux.c ./xtrap.c
gcc: ./hpux.c: No such file or directory
gcc: ./xtrap.c: No such file or directory
./xkeycaps.c:13:21: error: version.h: No such file or directory
./xkeycaps.c:28:24: error: KbdWidgetP.h: No such file or directory
./xkeycaps.c:29:24: error: KeyWidgetP.h: No such file or directory
./xkeycaps.c:31:22: error: xkeycaps.h: No such file or directory
./xkeycaps.c:44:26: error: XKeyCaps_ad.h: No such file or directory
./KbdWidget.c:14:24: error: KbdWidgetP.h: No such file or directory
./KbdWidget.c:15:24: error: KeyWidgetP.h: No such file or directory
./KbdWidget.c:17:22: error: xkeycaps.h: No such file or directory
./KbdWidget.c:18:20: error: kbddef.h: No such file or directory
./KeyWidget.c:15:23: error: KbdWidget.h: No such file or directory
./KeyWidget.c:16:24: error: KeyWidgetP.h: No such file or directory
./info.c:27:24: error: KbdWidgetP.h: No such file or directory
./info.c:28:24: error: KeyWidgetP.h: No such file or directory
./info.c:30:22: error: xkeycaps.h: No such file or directory
./actions.c:14:24: error: KbdWidgetP.h: No such file or directory
./actions.c:15:24: error: KeyWidgetP.h: No such file or directory
./actions.c:16:22: error: xkeycaps.h: No such file or directory
./commands.c:68:24: error: KbdWidgetP.h: No such file or directory
./commands.c:69:24: error: KeyWidgetP.h: No such file or directory
./commands.c:71:22: error: xkeycaps.h: No such file or directory
./commands.c:73:20: error: kbddef.h: No such file or directory
./commands.c:75:59: error: vroot.h: No such file or directory
./guess.c:26:24: error: KbdWidgetP.h: No such file or directory
./guess.c:27:24: error: KeyWidgetP.h: No such file or directory
./guess.c:29:20: error: kbddef.h: No such file or directory
./all-kbds.c:63:27: error: keysym-compat.h: No such file or directory
./all-kbds.c:65:20: error: kbddef.h: No such file or directory
./all-kbds.c:77:67: error: all-kbds.h: No such file or directory
./sunOS.c:115:7: error: unterminated comment
./sunOS.c:19:1: error: unterminated #if
$


i didn't understand any of this, so i attempted to run make.

$ make
make: *** No rule to make target `xkeycaps.h', needed by `xkeycaps.o'. Stop.


1. can someone help me understand what is happening?
2. what should I do?

[just a note to those who respond - i'm a newb, so feel free to be explicit. even if you're not, i'll look up definitions. thanks!]