[dundee] Compile woes

Keir Lawson dundee at lists.lug.org.uk
Sat Jun 21 14:57:00 2003


On Sat, 2003-06-21 at 13:03, Mark Harrigan wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 21, 2003 at 12:44:35PM +0100, Keir Lawson wrote:
> > I cant seem to compile rhythmbox(gnome music player www.rhythmbox.org i
> > think) from cvs.  ./autogen.sh works fine and tells me to use make to
> > compile.  i type make and eventually the following error appears: 
> > 
> > make[2]: Entering directory `/root/rhythmbox/data'
> > Makefile:471: *** missing separator.  Stop.
> > make[2]: Leaving directory `/root/rhythmbox/data'
> > make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> > make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/rhythmbox'
> > make: *** [all-recursive-am] Error 2
> > 
> > (i think thats the significant stuff)
> > 
> > can someone help?
> > 
> > keir 
> 
> If you're using code from cvs I'd expect it to be less than stable,
> could be a infinite number of things that cause errors with that sort
> of code. I'd suggest subscribing to the development mailing list as
> they may be able to shed light on it or using the packages. 
> 
> Out of interest why do you insist on installing everything from source?
> 
> Mark

because the only binary i can find for mandrake is a very old and buggy
version

keir
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