On Thu, 2013-08-01 at 12:50 -0700, John Jason Jordan wrote:
> 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. 

qmake-qt4 is building the makefile so its does the job running configure
would do.

The missing libraries*  should be on your system though, as part of the
driver install, alt least they are on mine (though it's not a Fedora
box)  you might want to check they actually are.

* libnvidia-tls.so, libnvidia-glcore.so

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