Installing From source Problem

[BRScott]

Hi, well on to my problem...

Whenever I attempt to install my program from source I run

cd wherever
./configure

but every time I run ./configure, ./configure shows an error at the end, it says that ./configure encountered an error and it is probably because "HAVE_XV" is not defined or somthing to that effect, could someone explain to me what this means and how i go about defining this value or an alternate way to install from source, I have the RPM but when I try to install the RPM it gives an error, the RPM i got is the SRPMS, do i need a different rpm or something, if you could just help me with either of these problems it would be verry apreciated..

Thanks,
BRScott
Linux Uber-newb

[duster]

Scott, i think you will have to post the entire error message for us to help u some more. but I had a similar problem to the one i think you are discribing. What i had to do was reinstall my kernel source from my redhat cd.