[dundee] Compile woes

[Wm. G. Urquhart]

On Saturday 21 Jun 2003 2:56 pm, Keir Lawson wrote:
> 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

Hi Keir,

Isn't there a generic source tarball you could use? Much better than compiling 
from CVS.

-- 
Regards,

William
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