Make Errors Again..

[RobinVossen]

I seem not to understand how to build from source.
Since I always get problems with it.
Got example now with iDesk.
wget package
tar xf package
cd packagedir
./configure -> Success
make -> Error

make[2]: *** [XDesktopContainer.o] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving direcotry `/root/idesk-0.7.5/src`
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1

what the hell does that mean?
I googled for "make error 2" and "make error 1" but that was no-luck..
Anyone has a list with what the make errors are?
Or, can somebody tell me what I do wrong? or why it doesnt work?

(FC6, IceWM, Trying to install iDesk)

[Freston]

From the man page:

EXIT STATUS
GNU make exits with a status of zero if all makefiles were successfully
parsed and no targets that were built failed. A status of one will be
returned if the -q flag was used and make determines that a target needs to
be rebuilt. A status of two will be returned if any errors were encoun-
tered.

But as make is a Gnu program, <info make> will yield more info. Also, if you google on <XDesktopContainer.o> you'll find you're not the only one. I couldn't decide what would be appropriate as link, because you probably have to reconstruct what went wrong in your case from combining the info from multiple hits. Some are in Russian, but the commands, errors and such are in English of course.

[RobinVossen]

Thanks, but I read now nearly everything. And no were they give a good answer.
..

Thanks anywho..

[RobinVossen]

After looking around for a while I found that I dont have X11/Xft/Xft.h
Though I have X11-devel installed..
What package does include Xft.h?

[jozyba]

Xft.h is in libxft-dev.

There's a useful search engine on debian.org where you can search for the names of packages that contain certain files:
Debian -- Packages

[RobinVossen]

Thanks alot.
I will look for a FedoraCore 6 package of that.
If you can find that please share (but I will look my self so no biggy)

Thanks alot.