"make" command not working

[imranka]

Hi,

I'm having the same problem. Whatever I tried to compile before, it failed. The ./configure didn't work. It says, "No such file or directory". Now, I'm trying to install realplayer. So, I cd to the realplayer dir, issued make. And here is the output:

 make[1]: Entering directory `/home/Imran/bin/src/realplay-10.0.9/common/runtime'
make[1]: Makefile: No such file or directory
make[1]: *** No rule to make target `Makefile'.  Stop.
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/Imran/bin/src/realplay-10.0.9/common/runtime'
make: *** [all] Error 2

I'm running FC8,

kernel-devel-2.6.23.1-42.fc8
kernel-2.6.23.1-42.fc8
kernel-2.6.23.15-137.fc8
kernel-devel-2.6.23.15-137.fc8
kernel-headers-2.6.23.15-137.fc8

Thanks in advance.

[daark.child]

You could install RealPlayer using the rpm which is available from here.

[devils casper]

If your machine has internet access then I would suggest you to install VLC Player through Package Manager of your distro. VLC supports most of the media formats.

[imranka]

Hi,
Thanks for your suggestion. I have vlc installed already. Though, I'm more willing to know the reason of failure of compiling the binaries. Can you tell me why ./configure or make is not working?

[drl]

Hi.

The error message:

make[1]: *** No rule to make target `Makefile'.  Stop.

suggests to me that you probably typed:

make Makefile

and you probably should have typed (only):

make

Here's an example:

#!/bin/bash -

# @(#) s1       Demonstrate make.

echo
echo "(Versions displayed with local utility \"version\")"
version >/dev/null 2>&1 && version =o $(_eat $0 $1) my-nl make

rm -f my_file

echo
echo " Input makefile:"
my-nl makefile

echo
echo " Results from executing \"make\":"
make

echo
echo " Results from executing \"make Makefile\":"
make Makefile

exit 0

Producing:

% ./s1

(Versions displayed with local utility "version")
Linux 2.6.11-x1
GNU bash 2.05b.0
my-nl (local) 296
GNU Make 3.80

 Input makefile:

==> makefile <==

  1 # Sun Mar  9 17:08:17 CDT 2008
  2 #
  3 # Demonstrate make.
  4
  5 my_file:
  6     touch my_file
  7     @ echo " File created."
  8     @ ls

 Results from executing "make":
touch my_file
 File created.
makefile  my_file  readme.txt  s1

 Results from executing "make Makefile":
make: *** No rule to make target `Makefile'.  Stop.

Other than that, I have no idea. Best wishes ... cheers, drl

[devils casper]

I would suggest to check README or INSTALL file for instructions. It must be along with other extracted files.

[imranka]

Hi drl,

I typed "make" not "make Makefile".