%% "M.Mandeltort" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
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mm> Forgive a newbie seeking instruction but I have a question about
mm> "running make". I have been trying to install an upgrade of lilo
mm> to my system but have been stymied by "make". The instructions
mm> for the upgrade write I should download the tar.gz file, extract
mm> it to a named directory, run make and then make install. The
mm> first two steps are no problem. It is the latter two. It appears
mm> that I should simply type "make" and viola, a compiled program.
mm> Rather I get errors such as "no target" etc.
It's pretty much impossible to help without exact errors; if you cut and
paste what you typed and message you got into your email that's much
better.
However, it sounds like your error might have been this:
make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop.
That means there's no makefile in your directory to tell make what it
should make.
I'm not familiar with how Lilo is built, but your problem is almost
certainly one of two things:
1) After you untar the file it will create a new directory containing
the lilo source code; you need to cd into that directory before you
run "make".
It's quite possible the Lilo instructions won't mention this
explicitly.
Or, if you did that,
2) There's an extra step you forgot to run before "make". Many tools
that use GNU's distribution system, for example, require you to run
"./configure"; this is a shell script that examines your system for
features (or lack thereof) and constructs the makefile for you; if
you don't run it you won't have a makefile.
If this is necessary it will be mentioned explicitly in an INSTALL
file or README similar in the distribution.
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