Is make installed? If configure exits without errors, and there is a file called "Makefile" now in that directory, your problem is probably that make isn't installed, not that configure isn't working. Learning how to build software is a question for a different mailing list.
On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 10:07 AM, Ian Ring <[email protected]> wrote: > I've run ./configure, and it spews out piles of stuff. > The first time I ran it, I was missing libxml... so I installed that. Now it > seems to be configuring OK because I see the license information at the end, > no error messages, and one of the lines says "config.status: creating > Makefile" > > As instructed in the docs, I type "make", and this is the response: > > -bash: make: command not found > > So what am I doing wrong? > > Some of the configure output says: > "checking for /blah blah blah ... no" > "checking for /blah blah blah ... no" > "checking for /blah blah blah ... no" > > Are all of these things required? Most of them are "yes", but there are some > "no"'s scattered throughout. > > Apologies for being a relatively new Linux user > > Ian > >
