Trouble building a robot

Hi all,

I'm having trouble building my own robot. I have things compiling,
it's just ... not there ... when I run a practise race.

I'm on Ubuntu 11.10. I realised that I think I need to compile Torcs
myself into order to build robot drivers, so after a while I
downloaded the sources rather than using the apt installer. I did need
to apply the patch found on the homepage in order to get it to work,
but after finding that, things are fine. I compiled with a prefix
(/home/tennessee/tdev) rather than putting things in /usr, but that is
no problem. The program runs fine, I can race as a human driver etc.

I tried to work through the tutorial found at http://www.berniw.org/.
I found I had a few small issues, then a big one. First, I am pretty
sure I'm running robotgen from the right place. It builds an extra
directory for my car name in src/drivers/mycarname, and puts the
schedule of files in there. The tutorial says to run "make" from that
directory. If I do that, then what I get is "make: *** No targets.
Stop." . So I tried something else, what was to run "make" from the
top-level directory and build the whole application. This seemed to
work. I now have mycarname.so and mycarname.o files in that directory.
So I ran make install to finish things off.

However, when I run torcs, the driver is simply not there in the list
under "configure race".

Is there anything else I should be doing, or anything else that I can
check to try and resolve the issue?

Thanks,
-Tennessee

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