Problem with installation. tar xzvf wine-20040914.tar.gz this created a directory ~/wine-20040914 su # ./configure this generated a longwinded error message to the effect that it is unable to guess my system type. # ./configure --build=i686 this got the configuration going and ended with the message: "Configur finished. Do 'make depend && make' to compile wine". #make depend this generated a log with a number of errors. The first significant error is that the program makedep.c cannot find the header file 'config.h'. It expects this file in ~/wine-../tools, but it is not there. Additional info: My system is Mandrake 10.0 The source was downloaded as user into /home/john My Questions: 1) why is my system not detected by the config.guess program. 2) why is there no config.h in dir tools. John
not sure, but for ease-of-use, you should be installing from source by using ./tools/wineinstall ;) (not the typical configure, make, make install) Hiji --- John Wildberger <wildberger@cogeco.ca> wrote:> Problem with installation. > tar xzvf wine-20040914.tar.gz > this created a directory ~/wine-20040914 > su > # ./configure > this generated a longwinded error message to the > effect that it is unable to > guess my system type. > # ./configure --build=i686 > this got the configuration going and ended with the > message: > "Configur finished. Do 'make depend && make' to > compile wine". > #make depend > this generated a log with a number of errors. The > first significant error is > that the program makedep.c cannot find the header > file 'config.h'. > It expects this file in ~/wine-../tools, but it is > not there. > Additional info: My system is Mandrake 10.0 > The source was downloaded as user into /home/john > My Questions: > 1) why is my system not detected by the config.guess > program. > 2) why is there no config.h in dir tools. > > John > _______________________________________________ > wine-users mailing list > wine-users@winehq.org > http://www.winehq.org/mailman/listinfo/wine-users >__________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - 100MB free storage! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail
John Wildberger wrote:> On Thursday 30 September 2004 10:17 am, you wrote: > > >>Ok I think you have missed the point. >> >>BTW the best shaped wheel is circular, the square ones are great for >>stopping vehicles rolling down hill, but a real bugger for getting uphill, >>and hard work on the flat. ;) >> >>Richard > > Thanks Richard, > I am not really sure what I missed. > I appreciate your humor, but currently it is wasted on me. You see, I am not > really that much interested in making wine to work. I have it working just > fine using the old and tested rpm variety. I am in the midst of learning a > little bit of the GNU tools like automake,autoconfig. I don't know if you > ever tried to work through this mess. If so, you might be more sympathetic to > my struggle. It just bugs the hell out of me to read very explicit > instructions on how to do things, but following such instructions fail due to > some little quirks the author has ommitted to include. > BTW, Have you ever tried to install wine from source? I would like to hear > your experience version on this. > John > > >No Ive never bothered to build from SRC. Ive learn t from several years experience, that if there is a RPM for the distro your using to use it. Still some of the main distros use different library locations, and different locations for binaries. You need to be VERY careful when using tarballs, as you can install files where your system doesn't like them, I'm forever sorting a friend s machine out where he downloades apps as tarballs,and either builds or installs, only to overwrite a lib rendering another application useless. If you want to practice using some of the "gnu tools", try patching and rebuilding a kernel or two. As I said before ILP's RPM for Mandrake just drops in as sweet as a nut Richard
> I am convinced that the builder of the tarball for wine-20040914 have missedsome points> that render it unusable for mandrake 10. It might work well for RedHat or > other distros. So far I have not heard from anyone who was successful with mdk10.For a start it's an RPM, not a tarball, the RPM has been reported to work by quite lots people, any packaging bug I've been told about has been fixed within days if not hours (I'm a volunteer so I don't always have much time to dedicate to wine), I test all RPMs on Mandrake 10.0 and 9.2 before releasing them, and if you know about anything that isn't done properly, please says so, all feedback is welcome. Ivan. ____________________________________________________________ Libero ADSL: navighi gratis a 1.2 Mega, senza canone e costi di attivazione. Abbonati subito su http://www.libero.it