On Thu, 1 Aug 2013 11:13:15 -0700 (PDT) Rich Shepard <rshep...@appl-ecosys.com> dijo:
>On Thu, 1 Aug 2013, John Jason Jordan wrote: > >> I used git to collect the source and put it in ~/sleepyhead-code. >> Then I installed (per the instructions) qt-devel, qtwebkit-devel and >> gcc-c++ which, it turns out, were already installed with the latest >> versions. Then I ran qmake-qt4, which also exited without error. But >> when I then ran make -j2 I got a list of errors, some of which are: > >John, > >The usual procedure for building and installing from source code >has three steps: > 1. configure > 2. make > 3. make install >The last is run as root (or sudo). > >From your description it appears that you missed the configuration >step. This checks your system for required libraries and sets >application paths. You can see the avabilable options by typing (from >within the source directory), > ./configure --help | less Running the above command from within the source directory (sleepyhead-code) I got: bash: ./configure: No such file or directory The person I got the instructions from must have done a .configure, because the instructions listed three packages that needed to be installed. (I already had all three installed.) I don't know how he ran the .configure command. It sure doesn't work for me. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug