Re: Compile problems

Shawn H Corey <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.user-groups.linux.ottawa.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 10-10-26 05:50 PM, Andy Civil wrote:
> I like some of Simon Tatham's puzzles. At the moment, I'm using the windows
> binaries under Wine, but that seems a bit silly when Linux versions are
> available, so I set about getting that working.
>
> I have Ubuntu, which seems to have Gnome, so that's a good start. I download the
> tarball into a directory, there's a Makefile, so I open a shell there and type
> "make". Several screenfulls of errors ensue, all the ones I can see relate to
> things in 'gtk.c' that it can't find. Questions:
>
> I'm used to doing:
> ./configure
> make
> make install
>
> but in this case there's no file called ./configure is that normal?
>
> I wanted to see the first error that came out of make, but it scrolls off the
> screen. Why does "make | more" not pause it for me? "less" doesn't work either.
> Is it something to do with it being stderr?
>
> Any idea why it won't compile? Am I starting on the road to dependency hell?

More than likely.

The exact sequence to get it to compile should be in the README* or 
INSTALL* files.  Some variations of configure are:

Configure
configure.sh
config.sh

BTW, these puzzles are available in compiled form in the Ubuntu Software 
Centre.  Just download one of them and you get them all.


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Just my 0.00000002 million dollars worth,
   Shawn

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