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by **Surreal Killa** on Sat Mar 01, 2008 9:20 am

Hi. So I installed build-essentials and when I download a program's source and cd to the directory and type ./configure it outputs some info and things seem to be working but when I type make it says there is nothing to make.

"No targets specified and no makefile found."

But I look and there are files called makefile in the directory and even if I specifically point to them with make it says there's nothing to do with that file.

by **MagnusB** on Sat Mar 01, 2008 12:08 pm

./configure makes the makefile, if it is aborted due to some error it does not finish, thus compiling will not work. ./configure usually check for:
1. Correct compilers are installed and configured.
2. Correct dependencies are installed and configured.
1 usually goes without issues, but 2 can cause some issues, even if you have the correct package installed it can't find it or something similar.
Can you tell us what you are trying to compile, and post the output of ./configure?

by **Surreal Killa** on Sat Mar 01, 2008 12:39 pm

Right now I am trying to compile GPicView 0.1.9.

./configure outputs:

Code: Select all: checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c checking whether build environment is sane... yes checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /bin/mkdir -p checking for gawk... no checking for mawk... mawk checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... no checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu checking for style of include used by make... GNU checking for gcc... gcc checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out checking whether the C compiler works... yes checking whether we are cross compiling... no checking for suffix of executables... checking for suffix of object files... o checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed checking dependency style of gcc... gcc3 checking for a sed that does not truncate output... /bin/sed checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /bin/grep checking for egrep... /bin/grep -E checking for ld used by gcc... /usr/bin/ld checking if the linker (/usr/bin/ld) is GNU ld... yes checking for /usr/bin/ld option to reload object files... -r checking for BSD-compatible nm... /usr/bin/nm -B checking whether ln -s works... yes checking how to recognize dependent libraries... pass_all checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E checking for ANSI C header files... yes checking for sys/types.h... yes checking for sys/stat.h... yes checking for stdlib.h... yes checking for string.h... yes checking for memory.h... yes checking for strings.h... yes checking for inttypes.h... yes checking for stdint.h... yes checking for unistd.h... yes checking dlfcn.h usability... yes checking dlfcn.h presence... yes checking for dlfcn.h... yes checking for g++... g++ checking whether we are using the GNU C++ compiler... yes checking whether g++ accepts -g... yes checking dependency style of g++... gcc3 checking how to run the C++ preprocessor... g++ -E checking for g77... no checking for xlf... no checking for f77... no checking for frt... no checking for pgf77... no checking for cf77... no checking for fort77... no checking for fl32... no checking for af77... no checking for xlf90... no checking for f90... no checking for pgf90... no checking for pghpf... no checking for epcf90... no checking for gfortran... no checking for g95... no checking for xlf95... no checking for f95... no checking for fort... no checking for ifort... no checking for ifc... no checking for efc... no checking for pgf95... no checking for lf95... no checking for ftn... no checking whether we are using the GNU Fortran 77 compiler... no checking whether accepts -g... no checking the maximum length of command line arguments... 98304 checking command to parse /usr/bin/nm -B output from gcc object... ok checking for objdir... .libs checking for ar... ar checking for ranlib... ranlib checking for strip... strip checking if gcc supports -fno-rtti -fno-exceptions... no checking for gcc option to produce PIC... -fPIC checking if gcc PIC flag -fPIC works... yes checking if gcc static flag -static works... yes checking if gcc supports -c -o file.o... yes checking whether the gcc linker (/usr/bin/ld) supports shared libraries... yes checking whether -lc should be explicitly linked in... no checking dynamic linker characteristics... GNU/Linux ld.so checking how to hardcode library paths into programs... immediate checking whether stripping libraries is possible... yes checking if libtool supports shared libraries... yes checking whether to build shared libraries... yes checking whether to build static libraries... yes configure: creating libtool appending configuration tag "CXX" to libtool checking for ld used by g++... /usr/bin/ld checking if the linker (/usr/bin/ld) is GNU ld... yes checking whether the g++ linker (/usr/bin/ld) supports shared libraries... yes checking for g++ option to produce PIC... -fPIC checking if g++ PIC flag -fPIC works... yes checking if g++ static flag -static works... yes checking if g++ supports -c -o file.o... yes checking whether the g++ linker (/usr/bin/ld) supports shared libraries... yes checking dynamic linker characteristics... GNU/Linux ld.so checking how to hardcode library paths into programs... immediate appending configuration tag "F77" to libtool checking for library containing strerror... none required checking for gcc... (cached) gcc checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... (cached) yes checking whether gcc accepts -g... (cached) yes checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... (cached) none needed checking dependency style of gcc... (cached) gcc3 checking for gcc... (cached) gcc checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... (cached) yes checking whether gcc accepts -g... (cached) yes checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... (cached) none needed checking dependency style of gcc... (cached) gcc3 checking for ANSI C header files... (cached) yes checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config checking pkg-config is at least version 0.9.0... yes checking for PACKAGE... configure: error: Package requirements (gtk+-2.0 >= 2.6.0) were not met: No package 'gtk+-2.0' found Consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if you installed software in a non-standard prefix. Alternatively, you may set the environment variables PACKAGE_CFLAGS and PACKAGE_LIBS to avoid the need to call pkg-config. See the pkg-config man page for more details.

So I suppose I need gtk+-2.0?

by **MagnusB** on Sat Mar 01, 2008 12:45 pm

You should have GTK+ 2.0 installed, at least according to Synaptic (I am using Daryna). Try http://www.getdeb.net/app/GPicView instead...

by **Surreal Killa** on Sat Mar 01, 2008 12:51 pm

Well I have a freshly installed and updated Daryna, so I don't know why it isn't there if it's supposed to be. Also, I'm using GPicView as an example. I've tried compiling things before on Ubuntu and it's never worked, so I'm trying to figure out why.

by **MagnusB** on Sat Mar 01, 2008 1:16 pm

Like it say below, it is looking for GTK, but can't find it (most likely it is placed in a non standard place), I am not sure how to fix this. I got a similar issue when I was trying to compile Transmission, but I used a deb instead.
Ohh, I just saw, you do not have GTK+ 2.6.0 (or above), Daryna use 2.12.2, if I managed to read it correctly.. Try compiling an older version, upgrading GTK+ could be painful... Try compiling GPaint instead, I think that is easier. Compiling could be hard, especially since using a package manager is common today.
But I am not especially experienced with compiling, my success % is well below 50.....

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