make error

[berrance]

hi,

i am still new to linux and get a little confused at things prety easly, i am ok installing things when it is a RPM file but when it comes to a .tar.gz file i get stuck, in the tar.gz file i have extracted it and read the install file and that says to do the following steps "./configure" "make" and then "make install" i have no problems doing the "./configure" bit no errors come up but when i try and do the make i get the following message

make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found.  Stop.

there is no refrence to this in the install file or the readme and when i use the help for it i dont understand it, this is what i understand, i need to suply the path for where it is to be installed and where the make file is. first is the make file in the tar.gz file? if so is it the makefile.in? and where should i install it to? should i install it to "/usr/local/bin" is i do install it there do i also add the folder name to "/usr/local/bin" so it would look like "/usr/local/bin/folder"

if i am write should the command be put in on the "./configure" or on the "make" part?

from what i do understand i think the command should look some thing like this

--makefile=./makefile.in --directory=/usr/local/bin

is this write because i dont want to do it in case it messes my system up

as i say i am still new to linux and this is what i think but it could be totley wriong

i will be very greatfull for any help

[lakerdonald]

first make sure that you are in the directory where you extracted the tarball to. Then, make sure that ./configure doesn't return with any errors. Also, read the makefile in which you can find all of the possible targets. Try doing:
make install
make clean install
make all
-lakerdonald

[berrance]

i have tried a few difrent comands for make but non of them work, i am realy stuck on this . i will put the results on from the ./configure part of it

[root@hull openldap-2.2.15]# ./configure
Copyright 1998-2004 The OpenLDAP Foundation. All rights reserved.
        Restrictions apply, see COPYRIGHT and LICENSE files.
Configuring OpenLDAP 2.2.15-Release ...
checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking target system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking for a BSD compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for mawk... no
checking for gawk... gawk
checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... yes
checking for working aclocal... found
checking for working autoconf... found
checking for working automake... found
checking for working autoheader... found
checking for working makeinfo... found
checking for gnutar... no
checking for gtar... gtar
checking configure arguments... done
checking for a BSD compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking for cc... cc
checking for ar... ar
checking for Cygwin environment... no
checking for mingw32 environment... no
checking for EMX OS/2 environment... no
checking how to run the C preprocessor... cc -E
checking for gcc... (cached) cc
checking whether the C compiler (cc   ) works... yes
checking whether the C compiler (cc   ) is a cross-compiler... no
checking whether we are using GNU C... yes
checking whether cc accepts -g... yes
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 for a sed that does not truncate output... /bin/sed
checking whether ln -s works... yes
checking how to recognise dependent libraries... pass_all
checking for object suffix... o
checking for executable suffix... no
checking command to parse /usr/bin/nm -B output... ok
checking for dlfcn.h... yes
checking for ranlib... ranlib
checking for strip... strip
checking for objdir... .libs
checking for cc option to produce PIC... -fPIC
checking if cc PIC flag -fPIC works... yes
checking if cc static flag -static works... yes
checking if cc supports -c -o file.o... yes
checking if cc supports -c -o file.lo... yes
checking if cc supports -fno-rtti -fno-exceptions... yes
checking whether the linker (/usr/bin/ld) supports shared libraries... yes
checking how to hardcode library paths into programs... immediate
checking whether stripping libraries is possible... yes
checking dynamic linker characteristics... GNU/Linux ld.so
checking if libtool supports shared libraries... yes
checking whether to build shared libraries... yes
checking whether to build static libraries... yes
checking for dllload... no
checking for shl_load... no
checking for shl_load in -ldld... no
checking for dlopen... no
checking for dlopen in -ldl... yes
checking whether a program can dlopen itself... yes
checking whether a statically linked program can dlopen itself... no
checking whether -lc should be explicitly linked in... no
creating libtool
checking whether ln works... yes
checking whether ln -s works... (cached) yes
checking how to run the C preprocessor... cc -E
checking for Cygwin environment... (cached) no
checking for mingw32 environment... (cached) no
checking for executable suffix... (cached) no
checking for object suffix... (cached) o
checking for be_app in -lbe... no
checking for cc option to accept ANSI C... none needed
checking for cc depend flag... -M
checking for afopen in -ls... no
checking for EBCDIC... no
checking for ANSI C header files... yes
checking for dirent.h that defines DIR... yes
checking for opendir in -ldir... no
checking for sys/wait.h that is POSIX.1 compatible... yes
checking POSIX termios... yes
checking whether use of TIOCGWINSZ requires sys/ioctl.h... yes
checking for arpa/inet.h... yes
checking for arpa/nameser.h... yes
checking for assert.h... yes
checking for bits/types.h... yes
checking for conio.h... no
checking for crypt.h... yes
checking for direct.h... no
checking for errno.h... yes
checking for fcntl.h... yes
checking for filio.h... no
checking for getopt.h... yes
checking for grp.h... yes
checking for io.h... no
checking for libutil.h... no
checking for limits.h... yes
checking for locale.h... yes
checking for netinet/tcp.h... yes
checking for malloc.h... yes
checking for memory.h... yes
checking for psap.h... no
checking for pwd.h... yes
checking for process.h... no
checking for resolv.h... yes
checking for sgtty.h... yes
checking for shadow.h... yes
checking for stddef.h... yes
checking for string.h... yes
checking for strings.h... yes
checking for sysexits.h... yes
checking for sys/file.h... yes
checking for sys/filio.h... no
checking for sys/errno.h... yes
checking for sys/ioctl.h... yes
checking for sys/param.h... yes
checking for sys/resource.h... yes
checking for sys/select.h... yes
checking for sys/socket.h... yes
checking for sys/stat.h... yes
checking for sys/syslog.h... yes
checking for sys/time.h... yes
checking for sys/types.h... yes
checking for sys/ucred.h... no
checking for sys/uio.h... yes
checking for syslog.h... yes
checking for termios.h... yes
checking for unistd.h... yes
checking for winsock.h... no
checking for winsock2.h... no
checking for sigset in -lV3... no
checking for socket... yes
checking for select... yes
checking types of arguments for select()... int,fd_set *,struct timeval *
checking for regex.h... yes
checking for library containing regfree... none required
checking for compatible POSIX regex... yes
checking for sys/uuid.h... no
checking to see if -lrpcrt4 is needed for win32 UUID support... no
checking for res_query... no
checking for __res_query... no
checking for res_query in -lbind... no
checking for __res_query in -lbind... no
checking for res_query in -lresolv... yes
checking for getaddrinfo... yes
checking for getnameinfo... yes
checking for gai_strerror... yes
checking for inet_ntop... yes
checking INET6_ADDRSTRLEN... yes
checking struct sockaddr_storage... yes
checking for sys/un.h... yes
checking for openssl/ssl.h... yes
checking for ssl.h... no
checking for SSLeay_add_ssl_algorithms in -lssl... no
checking for SSL_library_init in -lssl... yes
checking for _beginthread... no
checking for pthread.h... yes
checking POSIX thread version... 10
checking for LinuxThreads pthread.h... yes
checking for GNU Pth pthread.h... no
checking for sched.h... yes
checking for pthread_create in default libraries... no
checking for pthread link with -kthread... no
checking for pthread link with -pthread... yes
checking for sched_yield... yes
checking for pthread_yield... yes
checking for thr_yield... no
checking for pthread_kill... yes
checking for pthread_rwlock_destroy... yes
checking for pthread_detach with <pthread.h>... yes
checking for pthread_setconcurrency... yes
checking for pthread_getconcurrency... yes
checking for thr_setconcurrency... no
checking for thr_getconcurrency... no
checking for pthread_kill_other_threads_np... yes
checking for LinuxThreads implementation... yes
checking for LinuxThreads consistency... yes
checking if pthread_create&#40;&#41; works... yes
checking if select yields when using pthreads... yes
checking for thread specific errno... yes
checking for thread specific h_errno... yes
checking for ctime_r... yes
checking for gethostbyname_r... yes
checking for gethostbyaddr_r... yes
checking number of arguments of ctime_r... 2
checking number of arguments of gethostbyname_r... 6
checking number of arguments of gethostbyaddr_r... 8
checking for db.h... yes
checking for Berkeley DB link &#40;default&#41;... no
checking for Berkeley DB link &#40;-ldb42&#41;... no
checking for Berkeley DB link &#40;-ldb-42&#41;... no
checking for Berkeley DB link &#40;-ldb-4.2&#41;... no
checking for Berkeley DB link &#40;-ldb-4-2&#41;... no
checking for Berkeley DB link &#40;-ldb-4&#41;... no
checking for Berkeley DB link &#40;-ldb4&#41;... no
checking for Berkeley DB link &#40;-ldb&#41;... yes
checking for Berkeley DB version match... yes
checking for Berkeley DB thread support... yes
checking Berkeley DB version for BDB backend... no
configure&#58; error&#58; BDB&#58; BerkeleyDB version incompatible

the strange thing is that i am sure that the error didnt come up before, any sugestions on this? i will have a look on google but i will still be greatfull for any help on this

[berrance]

i have looked on google for that error and come to an anser but it doesnt work, i have installed the newest version including the patches of the berckly DB, but i still get the same error! Please has any one got any sugestions i am realy stumped on this.

[jeremy1701]

Try uninstalling the DB and then reinstalling it.

What distro?

jeremy

[kkubasik]

configure: error: BDB: BerkeleyDB version incompatible

what program are you installing, and untill the ./configure is completed its unlikely that the make will work

[berrance]

hi, i am using fedora 1 and im trying to install open ldap i will try uninstalling the database, just let me do a bit of googleing how to find out how to uninstall stuff i can sortof install but uninstalling is a new thing for me cheers