a short google after your first error in the file got me to this: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=95674
I'd try installing : sudo apt-get install build-essential Regards, Alex ----- Original Message ----- From: "Cal Grandy" <cmg...@sover.net> To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" <emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net> Sent: Saturday, July 04, 2009 12:21 AM Subject: [Emc-users] Simple compile help needed > Well, simple for some. (Unix is friendly....to some ;) > I am trying to take advantage of the filtering to HP-GL files provided > by this program, > > Download > http://pldaniels.com/hpgl-distiller > hpgl-distiller-0.9.1.tar.gz > > > I have done this several months before, and all went as expected, now a > refresh of the system from an EMC/UbuntuISO disc has me putting things > back again. > > However, after tar -zxvf hpgl-distiller-0.9.1.tar.gz, and cd > hpgl-distiller-0.9.1. The request to "make" results in a long list of > all sorts of warnings (The attached file gives the command line > progression and a few lines of the error message) Subsequent "Sudo make > install repeats the warnings etc. A No-Go situation for me. This is > unfamiliar ground and I have spent hours with no light seen. I > "thought" a ./configure command was required, but when called, bash > replies "No such file or directory" Perhaps a path adjustment? > > Would someone care to step a bit out of EMC and into basic Linux and > offer comment? A useful how to pointer would be great. The on-line > references simplify to ",make,make install." So Simple! A cave man > could do it ;-)) Just not me ;-( > > Thanks in advance > > Cal in rainy VT > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.5.375 / Virus Database: 270.13.3/2216 - Release Date: 07/03/09 05:53:00 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users