"configure" isn't creating a "make"
I've run ./configure, and it spews out piles of stuff. The first time I ran it, I was missing libxml... so I installed that. Now it seems to be configuring OK because I see the license information at the end, no error messages, and one of the lines says "config.status: creating Makefile" As instructed in the docs, I type "make", and this is the response: -bash: make: command not found So what am I doing wrong? Some of the configure output says: "checking for /blah blah blah ... no" "checking for /blah blah blah ... no" "checking for /blah blah blah ... no" Are all of these things required? Most of them are "yes", but there are some "no"'s scattered throughout. Apologies for being a relatively new Linux user Ian
Re: "configure" isn't creating a "make"
Ian, You're missing the "make" binary. You need to install the "make" package on your OS. Regards, Alex On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 7:07 PM, Ian Ring wrote: > I've run ./configure, and it spews out piles of stuff. > The first time I ran it, I was missing libxml... so I installed that. Now > it seems to be configuring OK because I see the license information at the > end, no error messages, and one of the lines says "config.status: creating > Makefile" > > As instructed in the docs, I type "make", and this is the response: > > -bash: make: command not found > > So what am I doing wrong? > > Some of the configure output says: > "checking for /blah blah blah ... no" > "checking for /blah blah blah ... no" > "checking for /blah blah blah ... no" > > Are all of these things required? Most of them are "yes", but there are > some "no"'s scattered throughout. > > Apologies for being a relatively new Linux user > > Ian > >
Re: "configure" isn't creating a "make"
Is make installed? If configure exits without errors, and there is a file called "Makefile" now in that directory, your problem is probably that make isn't installed, not that configure isn't working. Learning how to build software is a question for a different mailing list. On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 10:07 AM, Ian Ring wrote: > I've run ./configure, and it spews out piles of stuff. > The first time I ran it, I was missing libxml... so I installed that. Now it > seems to be configuring OK because I see the license information at the end, > no error messages, and one of the lines says "config.status: creating > Makefile" > > As instructed in the docs, I type "make", and this is the response: > > -bash: make: command not found > > So what am I doing wrong? > > Some of the configure output says: > "checking for /blah blah blah ... no" > "checking for /blah blah blah ... no" > "checking for /blah blah blah ... no" > > Are all of these things required? Most of them are "yes", but there are some > "no"'s scattered throughout. > > Apologies for being a relatively new Linux user > > Ian > >
Re: "configure" isn't creating a "make"
Thanks guys, "yum install make" is all I needed. Now we're humming. Cheers On 2010-06-07, at 1:12 PM, Garth Patil wrote: Is make installed? If configure exits without errors, and there is a file called "Makefile" now in that directory, your problem is probably that make isn't installed, not that configure isn't working. Learning how to build software is a question for a different mailing list. On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 10:07 AM, Ian Ring wrote: I've run ./configure, and it spews out piles of stuff. The first time I ran it, I was missing libxml... so I installed that. Now it seems to be configuring OK because I see the license information at the end, no error messages, and one of the lines says "config.status: creating Makefile" As instructed in the docs, I type "make", and this is the response: -bash: make: command not found So what am I doing wrong? Some of the configure output says: "checking for /blah blah blah ... no" "checking for /blah blah blah ... no" "checking for /blah blah blah ... no" Are all of these things required? Most of them are "yes", but there are some "no"'s scattered throughout. Apologies for being a relatively new Linux user Ian
Re: "configure" isn't creating a "make"
have you installed make? try in the console which make otherwise search for make in synaptics or type sudo apt-get install make On Mon, Jun 07, 2010 at 01:07:24PM -0400, Ian Ring wrote: > I've run ./configure, and it spews out piles of stuff. > The first time I ran it, I was missing libxml... so I installed that. > Now it seems to be configuring OK because I see the license information > at the end, no error messages, and one of the lines says "config.status: > creating Makefile" > > As instructed in the docs, I type "make", and this is the response: > > -bash: make: command not found > > So what am I doing wrong? > > Some of the configure output says: > "checking for /blah blah blah ... no" > "checking for /blah blah blah ... no" > "checking for /blah blah blah ... no" > > Are all of these things required? Most of them are "yes", but there are > some "no"'s scattered throughout. > > Apologies for being a relatively new Linux user > > Ian signature.asc Description: Digital signature
