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
>
>

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