[Ilugc] Make file
- From: smal@xxxxxxxxxxx (Mahalingam Subramaniam)
- Date: Sat Jan 9 16:45:19 2010
-- Original Message --
From: Girish Venkatachalam <girishvenkatachalam@xxxxxxxxx>
To: ILUG-C <ilugc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 2010 09:18:01 +0530
Subject: Re: [Ilugc] Make file
On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 10:45 AM, Mahalingam Subramaniam
<smal@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Dear All
I am in the course of setting up a LAMP server on RHEL 5.2. After the
successful compilation cum installation of Mysql 5.2, Apache 2.2, I have been
making repeated attempt to compile & install Php-5.2.12 like other two
through source downloaded from php.net, I am unable to do so. Whilst, trying
to execute "Make" after configure with options, it outputs error message as
follows:
"make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop."
Your valuable suggestions & comments are sought to resolve this issue.
My goodness. This thread seems to have evoked a great deal of
responses.
If configure exits with an error, makefiles will not be generated.
The way autoconf works is that it generates Makefile from Makefile.in
and Makefile.am. And it invokes libtool, autoheader, aclocal, automake
and so on.
All part of the autoconf tool chain. In some cases you have to
generate configure from autogen.sh. This usually happens when you
download
code from a version control repo. Otherwise you only run the
./configure script.
Please try this.
$ ./configure --help | less
Read the various options and see if disabling something lets configure
generate makefiles correctly. Some dependencies are mandatory
and some optional depending upon what feature is enabled.
Anyway your error clearly says that the configure script existed due
to a possible dependency or version issue.
Hence the makefile "Makefile" (possibly many each per subdir) was not
generated correctly.
You could inspect the file config.log or something similar in the
toplevel directory or simply run configure again.
And also there is nothing wrong in trying to learn all these things someday
If you stick only to binary packages you will never know.
Looking at the responses I see in this thread the awareness of the way
the autoconf suite works seem pretty poor.
I wonder how configure script can depend on perl. I am yet to see a
situation like that. perl modules have their own "perl Makefile.PL"
way of generating makefiles.
That is not the case here. I wonder.
Best,
Girish
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thank your very much Mr. Girish. Your narration about make file has really
opened up the awareness about the function of make file. kudos to you
with regards
s.mahalingam
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