problems with compiling

Hi. when i download a program and try to install it. I extract it. Then run. /configure. Then when i run make it fails. Is there anything that i'm doing wrong. Do i have to extract it to a certain directory.

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Hi. when i download a program and try to install it. I extract it. Then run "./configure". Then when i run "make" it fails. Is there anything that i'm doing wrong. Do i have to extract it to a certain directory. Can u please help me.

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If you can use gnome-terminal or konsole and try it again, you can copy the exact errors you're getting and paste them here. That will go a long way to getting help with what the problem is.

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heres what u asked for.

Quote:[root@localhost libglade-0.7]# ./configureloading cache ./config.cache
checking for a BSD compatible install... (cached) /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... (cached) yes
checking for working aclocal... found
checking for working autoconf... found
checking for working automake... found
checking for working autoheader... found
checking for working makeinfo... found
checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... no
checking for gcc... (cached) gcc
checking whether the C compiler (gcc ) works... yes
checking whether the C compiler (gcc ) is a cross-compiler... no
checking whether we are using GNU C... (cached) yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... (cached) yes
checking for POSIXized ISC... no
checking how to run the C preprocessor... (cached) gcc -E
checking for ANSI C header files... (cached) yes
checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking for ranlib... (cached) ranlib
checking for ld used by GCC... (cached) /usr/bin/ld
checking if the linker (/usr/bin/ld) is GNU ld... (cached) yes
checking for BSD-compatible nm... (cached) /usr/bin/nm -B
checking whether ln -s works... (cached) yes
loading cache ./config.cache within ltconfig
checking for object suffix... o
checking for gcc option to produce PIC... -fPIC
checking if gcc PIC flag -fPIC works... yes
checking if gcc supports -c -o file.o... yes
checking if gcc supports -c -o file.lo... yes
checking if gcc supports -fno-rtti -fno-exceptions ... yes
checking if gcc static flag -static works... -static
checking if the linker (/usr/bin/ld) is GNU ld... yes
checking whether the linker (/usr/bin/ld) supports shared libraries... yes
checking command to parse /usr/bin/nm -B output... ok
checking how to hardcode library paths into programs... immediate
checking for /usr/bin/ld option to reload object files... -r
checking dynamic linker characteristics... Linux ld.so
checking if libtool supports shared libraries... yes
checking whether to build shared libraries... yes
checking whether to build static libraries... yes
checking for objdir... .libs
creating libtool
loading cache ./config.cache
checking for gtk-config... (cached) /usr/bin/gtk-config
checking for GTK - version >= 1.2.0... yes
checking for xml-config... (cached) /usr/bin/xml-config
checking for gnome-config... (cached) /usr/bin/gnome-config
checking if /usr/bin/gnome-config works... yes
checking for orbit-config... (cached) /usr/bin/orbit-config
checking for orbit-idl... (cached) /usr/bin/orbit-idl
checking for working ORBit environment... (cached) yes
checking for gnorba libraries... (cached) yes
checking what warning flags to pass to the C compiler... -Wall -Wunused
checking what language compliance flags to pass to the C compiler...
checking for gtkdoc-mkdb... (cached) true
checking for working const... (cached) yes
checking for inline... (cached) inline
checking for off_t... (cached) yes
checking for size_t... (cached) yes
checking for working alloca.h... (cached) yes
checking for alloca... (cached) yes
checking for unistd.h... (cached) yes
checking for getpagesize... (cached) yes
checking for working mmap... (cached) yes
checking for argz.h... (cached) yes
checking for limits.h... (cached) yes
checking for locale.h... (cached) yes
checking for nl_types.h... (cached) yes
checking for malloc.h... (cached) yes
checking for string.h... (cached) yes
checking for unistd.h... (cached) yes
checking for sys/param.h... (cached) yes
checking for getcwd... (cached) yes
checking for munmap... (cached) yes
checking for putenv... (cached) yes
checking for setenv... (cached) yes
checking for setlocale... (cached) yes
checking for strchr... (cached) yes
checking for strcasecmp... (cached) yes
checking for strdup... (cached) yes
checking for __argz_count... (cached) yes
checking for __argz_stringify... (cached) yes
checking for __argz_next... (cached) yes
checking for LC_MESSAGES... (cached) yes
checking whether NLS is requested... yes
checking for libintl.h... (cached) yes
checking for gettext in libc... (cached) yes
checking for msgfmt... (cached) /usr/bin/msgfmt
checking for dcgettext... (cached) yes
checking for gmsgfmt... (cached) /usr/bin/msgfmt
checking for xgettext... (cached) /usr/bin/xgettext
creating ./config.status
creating Makefile
creating libglade.spec
creating macros/Makefile
creating intl/Makefile
creating po/Makefile.in
creating glade/Makefile
creating doc/Makefile
creating libglade-config
creating libgladeConf.sh
creating config.h
config.h is unchanged
[root@localhost libglade-0.7]# make
make all-recursive
make[1]: Entering directory `/root/Programs/Unreal/UT-Linux-400A/lib/libglade-0.7'
Making all in intl
make[2]: Entering directory `/root/Programs/Unreal/UT-Linux-400A/lib/libglade-0.7/intl'
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
make[2]: Leaving directory `/root/Programs/Unreal/UT-Linux-400A/lib/libglade-0.7/intl'
Making all in po
make[2]: Entering directory `/root/Programs/Unreal/UT-Linux-400A/lib/libglade-0.7/po'
make[2]: Leaving directory `/root/Programs/Unreal/UT-Linux-400A/lib/libglade-0.7/po'
Making all in macros
make[2]: Entering directory `/root/Programs/Unreal/UT-Linux-400A/lib/libglade-0.7/macros'
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
make[2]: Leaving directory `/root/Programs/Unreal/UT-Linux-400A/lib/libglade-0.7/macros'
Making all in glade
make[2]: Entering directory `/root/Programs/Unreal/UT-Linux-400A/lib/libglade-0.7/glade'
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
make[2]: Leaving directory `/root/Programs/Unreal/UT-Linux-400A/lib/libglade-0.7/glade'
Making all in doc
make[2]: Entering directory `/root/Programs/Unreal/UT-Linux-400A/lib/libglade-0.7/doc'
make templates
make[3]: Entering directory `/root/Programs/Unreal/UT-Linux-400A/lib/libglade-0.7/doc'
env CC="/bin/sh ../libtool --mode=link gcc" CFLAGS="-I/usr/include/gnome-1.0 -DNEED_GNOMESUPPORT_H -I/usr/lib/gnome-libs/include -I/usr/include/glib-1.2 -I/usr/lib/glib/include -I/usr/include/orbit-1.0 -I/usr/include/gtk-1.2 -I/usr/X11R6/include -I/usr/local/include/gnome-xml -I./.." LDFLAGS="../glade/libglade.la -rdynamic -L/usr/lib -L/usr/X11R6/lib -rdynamic -lgnomeui -lart_lgpl -lgdk_imlib -lSM -lICE -lgtk -lgdk -lgmodule -ldl -lXi -lXext -lX11 -lgnome -lgnomesupport -lesd -laudiofile -lm -lglib -L/usr/local/lib -lxml -lz" \
gtkdoc-scanobj --module=libglade \
--types=./libglade.types
/usr/bin/ld -r -o libglade-scan.o
/usr/bin/ld: no input files
Compilation of scanner failed
make[3]: *** [scan] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/root/Programs/Unreal/UT-Linux-400A/lib/libglade-0.7/doc'
make[2]: *** [libglade.hierarchy] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/root/Programs/Unreal/UT-Linux-400A/lib/libglade-0.7/doc'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/Programs/Unreal/UT-Linux-400A/lib/libglade-0.7'
make: *** [all-recursive-am] Error 2
[root@localhost libglade-0.7]#

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I'm sorry, I should have asked sooner, but what distro are you using?

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Im running rh9 too. Give me a link where to download this tarball, and I'll see what happens when I try to compile it on my box.