Hello Forum, I have problems with "Make"

[propaganda]

i am trying to install things on my slackware server, but everytime I run "make" i get this message:

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

i'm not sure but i think the problem may involve not having the c++ compiler, how can i check for it? and how do i install it?

ps- i ran whereis g++ and got

g++: /usr/bin/g++ /usr/man/man1/g++.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1/g++.1.gz

thanx for any help.

[oz]

Welcome to the forums, propaganda!

That means there is no makefile in the directory.

What packages are you trying to install?

You might be better off and have an easier time of it if you obtain Slackware packages and use pkgtool or installpkg to install them.

[valan]

Perhaps you need to first run the configure script which will create the Makefile for you

[propaganda]

I ran ./configure first and I checked the directory and saw Makefile.in listed there.

I was trying to install Apache but the same problem occured when I attempted to install Python and also a BitTorrent thing. I used the installpkg tool for Python and then ./configure and then Make... no go. :- (

These are the only things I've attempted to install so far and on each occasion I get this "no makefile found" error.

[propaganda]

for instance this is the README for Python:

Congratulations on getting this far.

To start building right away (on UNIX): type "./configure" in the
current directory and when it finishes, type "make". This creates an
executable "./python"; to install in /usr/local, first do "su root"
and then "make install".

I follow these instructions and get

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

That's why I thought it might be a compiler issue, but gcc --version gives me

gcc (GCC) 3.3.6
.

I'm at a loss. :- \

[valan]

Did configure spit out any errors? At the end it will say it's generated the Makefile (might say it multiple times). If it ran successfully, you will have a Makefile (not just a Makefile.in or a Makefile.am, you need one without an extension).

[propaganda]

Yes, I got a "sanity check failure"...

root@properganda:/Python-2.5.1#
root@properganda:/Python-2.5.1#
root@properganda:/Python-2.5.1# ./configure
checking MACHDEP... linux2
checking EXTRAPLATDIR...
checking for --without-gcc... no
checking for gcc... gcc
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of executables...
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... none needed
checking for --with-cxx-main=<compiler>... no
checking for g++... g++
configure: WARNING:

By default, distutils will build C++ extension modules with "g++".
If this is not intended, then set CXX on the configure command line.

checking how to run the C preprocessor... /lib/cpp
configure: error: C preprocessor "/lib/cpp" fails sanity check
See `config.log' for more details.

[stinkoman]

did you try looking at config.log for more details? that might give you a hint.

[topspincharlie]

I came across this thread while having the same problem when installing apache 2.2.

Installing kernel-headers, glibc, and binutils did the trick.