Hello all, I've been installing a few of the packages from the BLFS book to my lfs system. I've successfully installed python, a slew of networking packages, and others. Now, I want to install links and I read that it is a good idea to install both libpng and svgalib. After installing svgalib (which didn't use configure) I tried to install libpng but ran into serious trouble.
The configure command runs with no errors. Running the make command however, gives the error no targets stop. Examining the makefile reveals that it is empty! I thought this was a problem with the configure script of the libpng tarball so I untarred the less package installed in LFS. Running configure there works fine, but again the makefile is empty. I tested the cat command which the configure script uses to make the files and it appears to work properly. Other than, I have no idea what is causing this whatsoever. Are there any commands that I can run that emulate what configure does to make its files so that I can pin down the problem? I am running the configure script as an unprivileged user. I tried passing the file configure.ac to autoconf and running configure again but the problem is still there. I was also thought that the Makefile isn't being made because the package is already installed on the system. Surprisingly, configure successfully created a makefile for the links package! Attempting to compile links with graphics however, results in an error saying that libpng is not installed, which kind of squanders that theory. Plus, it would be very silly if configure was to communicate with the user solely by refusing to generate the makefile. I can't think of anything that I have changed that could cause this. Everything else seems to be working properly. I am truly baffled. Has this happened to anyone before? Any insight is greatly appreciated. Thanks, Alex
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