<SOLVED>Has anyone built Xed from source?

[Fred Barclay]

If so, I'm having a tad of trouble myself. I've opened an Issue on the GitHub page, but that doesn't seem to get too much traffic so I thought it might be worthwhile to ask here.
After running ./autogen.sh (and installing a bunch of dependencies) I get the following message when running "make":

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fred@aussie ~/Downloads/xed-master $ sudo make
make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found.  Stop.

I'm not so great at building from source yet but I can see that there are two Makefiles generated by autogen.sh: Makefile.am and Makefile.in. I don't know if that's what make is fussing about?

Thanks!
Fred

EDIT: this is what ./autogen.sh says:
https://gist.github.com/Fred-Barclay/3d ... 522b7cfea8

[Penn]

I may not be the best person to respond to this because I have only compiled from source twice. However I do know when an error messsage says anything to indicate "no target found" it usually means you have to put something at the end of the line. Such as I do recall each time I built from source that final command was

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sudo make install

As for the two files named "makefile" I think both are supposed to be there.

As I said, I may not be the best to answer but if I am missing something, then I have an opportunity to learn something.

[Fred Barclay]

Thanks. That would be the final command, but according the the directions there should be a "make" first.
https://github.com/linuxmint/xed (Sorry, should have posted this the first time).

So

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./autogen.sh
make
make install

I did try "make install" just in case and it too fails:

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fred@aussie ~/Downloads/xed-master $ make install
make: *** No rule to make target 'install'.  Stop.

[JosephM]

Easiest way on LMDE. Clone or download the source from git. cd into the directory once you have it downloaded. Run

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apt build-dep xed

This should install the needed dependencies. Then run

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dpkg-buildpackage

If all the dependencies were installed this will generate the needed debs. If not just install whatever it complains you are missing.
Now just use sudo dpkg -i to install the debs you generated.

[killer de bug]

I used the method from JospephM, and everything worked perfectly. It was a while back.

[Fred Barclay]

Thanks JosephM. That worked perfectly.